Re: file:///c:/nxdist/tut/tutorials.html or file:c:/nxdist/tut/tutorials.html?

[Davis Herring]

> The first form is used by Firefox, the second by Emacs.
>
> Are both correct, or?

http://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc1738.txt says that the file URL scheme looks
like file://host/path, where host may be empty to indicate localhost.  But
http://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc1808.txt says that you can have a relative
file: URL (a "generic-RL") that just looks like file:path, although it
says that the use of schemes with relative URLs is discouraged.  And on
Windows, the leading slash is not needed to tell whether a path is
absolute or not because of the special status of the drive-letter-colon
names.

So... I think the first one is better, but it's not clear (to me) that the
second is wrong.

Davis

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