[4935] in SIPB bug reports
Re: Bug in Mosaic
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Albert Dvornik)
Wed Oct 19 15:59:38 1994
To: Derek Atkins <warlord@MIT.EDU>
Cc: yandros@MIT.EDU, bug-sipb@MIT.EDU
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Wed, 19 Oct 1994 13:30:16 EDT."
<9410191730.AA06054@toxicwaste.media.mit.edu>
Date: Wed, 19 Oct 1994 15:58:45 EDT
From: "Albert Dvornik" <bert@MIT.EDU>
> I disagree: If I give a Web client the URL:
> file:/mit/warlord/www/home_page.html
Ummm, you are confused. First of all, the correct URL is
file://localhost/mit/warlord/www/home_page.html
Second, the semantics of this implies you want to get the file by
accessing localhost. Note that something like
file://rtfm.mit.edu/pub/usenet/
is a legal URL (usually implemented as a FTP access, but you could use
automounting or other magic just as well). Whether this is a bug or a
feature of the *URL spec* is a religious topic. [Wow, I didn't think
I'd ever have to defend Mosaic against the protocol... =)]
Sure, you could make localhost "special" in this case, but the
protocol doesn't say anything about that either way.
--bert
