Hi Mike, On Sat, 2006-07-01 at 00:01 -0400, Michael Bayer wrote: > i am mostly in favor of whatever rfc1738 says. > > though its not clear what <path> is. does "foo/bar" mean "/foo/bar" > on disk ? or "<wherever you are>/foo/bar" ? its not so clear. > intuition would say the former. however on pretty much any web > browser ive used, a url such as "file:///somewhere/foo" means the > absolute path "/somewhere/foo". > > i sort of like the four-slashes thing since im just taking the data > from the URL and going with no additional interpretation of it. just > has a strange result not consistent with what we're used to.
Well the issue comes from mixing in absolute paths. The "somewhere/foo" part is interpreted always relative to the document root. For the "file:" protocol the document root is "/" so it appears to be an absolute path when in reality it's not. Using 4 slashes would be the best way to implement absolute paths. HTH, William. Using Tomcat but need to do more? Need to support web services, security? Get stuff done quickly with pre-integrated technology to make your job easier Download IBM WebSphere Application Server v.1.0.1 based on Apache Geronimo http://sel.as-us.falkag.net/sel?cmd=lnk&kid=120709&bid=263057&dat=121642 _______________________________________________ Sqlalchemy-users mailing list Sqlalchemy-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/sqlalchemy-users
