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

[François Revol]

> Avi Kivity wrote:
> > Anthony Liguori wrote:
> >>>
> >>>  -drive file=file:///some/path:with:colons?
> >>
> >> No '///' please.
> >>
> >
> > Why not?
>
> For better or worse, this aren't URIs.  The main reason, is that a
> URI
> requires a hostname as the first component (which is empty in your
> URI).  But unix domain sockets don't match up with URIs because they
> aren't hostnames.

Not for file:, which is why there are 3 /, though it's actually *
possible* to specify a hostname for file:, it's *not* required, and
useless anyway.

François.