Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH] Add HTTP protocol using curl v2

[Anthony Liguori]

Avi Kivity wrote:
> Anthony Liguori wrote:
> > >  -drive file=file:///some/path:with:colons?
> >
> > No '///' please.
>
> Why not?

For better or worse, this aren't URIs.  The main reason, is that a URI 
requires a hostname as the first component (which is empty in your 
URI).  But unix domain sockets don't match up with URIs because they 
aren't hostnames.

Regards,

Anthony Liguori