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Re: Re:Re: Bug in or in relative URL's? RFC for CGI-specification
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Larry Masinter)
Fri Aug 26 23:05:13 1994
Date: Sat, 27 Aug 1994 04:57:06 +0200
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From: Larry Masinter <masinter@parc.xerox.com>
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If the latest URL draft is to be believed, the proper form for the URL
that corresponds to a DOS/Windows file:
A:\one\two\form.htm
is
file://localhost/a/one/two/form.htm
That is, 'file' URLs are *NOT* transparent, but rather should reflect
the actual hierarchical structure of the file system.
