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Re: NSURL compatibility with MacOS X
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Richard Frith-Macdonald |
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Re: NSURL compatibility with MacOS X |
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Thu, 16 Jan 2003 15:09:35 +0000 |
On Wednesday, January 15, 2003, at 03:29 pm, Larry Campbell wrote:
On MacOS X, -[NSURL initWithScheme:host:path:] requires that the path
supplied be absolute (starting with '/') and throws an exception if
it's not.
In GNUstep, a path starting with a '/' produces an invalid URL -- the
slash is doubled: "http://host//path";.
In general, unless MacOS X is clearly wrong (which I don't think it is
in this case) shouldn't GNUstep behave like MacOS X?
I've modified NSURL to accept a path with a leading slash, but not
raise an exception if the path doesn't have one.
RFC1738 says ... 'Note that the "/" between the host (or port) and the
url-path is NOT part of the url-path' ... which I would read as saying
that the MacOS-X behavior is technically incorrect, but compatibility
considerations are generally more important than consistency with RFCs