Hi Morgan!

Morgan Howe <[email protected]> wrote:
> 1) Check if it's a search engine
> 2) If not a search engine, look for "://", if found, trust the user.
> 3) Else, check if it's a file and if so, build the file:// URI
> 4) Else, check (again) if it's a search engine
> 5) Else, prefix with "http://"; and attempt to open.
> 
> Due to the order of the evaluation, the issue you mentioned originally
> should not be a problem.

Actually, this is exactly the main issue I tried explaining initially:
the policy change to give precedence to local files over URLs.

> Now the only other case would be a file named "http://www.example.com";
> which on any of the systems I have available is not a legal filename
> anyway. That would be the one case where the user would need to then
> properly specify the file:// prefix, though like I said, I'm not sure
> this scenario is even possible.

I think we can safely disregard this freak case :)

Hannes

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