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Re: Bug in or in relative URL's? RFC for CGI-specification

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Darren New)
Thu Aug 25 18:22:15 1994

Date: Thu, 25 Aug 1994 16:09:12 +0200
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From: Darren New <dnew@sgf.fv.com>
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> Why is it not possible to check for "file://localhost/./" and supposing
> NOT to start at root (with the absolute path) but at your current dir? (This

Well, not every OS works "current directory" like UNIX does.  MS-Windows, 
for example, has a current directory for *each* mounted file system, and 
this is shared amongst all the processes. If one process changes the 
"current directory" on drive C, all processes see that change.

So... which current directory should file://localhost/./ reference there?

Remember, HTTP is not just UNIX.  -- Darren


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