Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH] Add HTTP protocol using curl v2

[Kevin Wolf]

Daniel P. Berrange schrieb:
> Oh and if you want to be really nice, you could say that any filename
> with a leading '/' is implicitly file:///, since I can't imagine
> any protocol name starting with a  '/'.  And this would ensure any
> existing usage with absolute filenames 'just works' without tripping
> up on colons.

Existing usage would mean to get an error message. I don't see any
reason why we should change this behaviour if we have a real solution.
Adding more exceptions to the guessing doesn't really make it more harmless.

Kevin