Re: [xml] URI question...

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From: Daniel Veillard (Daniel.Veillard@w3.org)
Date: Mon Oct 02 2000 - 15:47:15 EDT

On Mon, Oct 02, 2000 at 02:38:05PM -0400, Marc Sanfacon wrote:
>
> Hi there,
> we are using libxml under Windows. We have encountered a problem
> with the URI on local files. Since under windows, there are drive letters
> to specify a file path, the uri looks like this:
>
> file://c:/tmp/MyFile.txt
>
> When giving this to 'xmlBuilrURI', it tries to look for the port
> number... Would it be all right to modify the code in uri.c so that when
> the scheme is 'file' and there is a ':' in the hostname, to keep it (the
> ':') with the server name instead of looking for the port number. Is it OK
> to say that a port number for the scheme file doesn't exists ?

  Hummm, I think taht the error is that you should use
           file:///c:/tmp/MyFile.txt
instead of file://c:/tmp/MyFile.txt

   file://hostname:1234/a/b/c

is a perfectly valid URL ... Recheck RFC 2396 but I'm 99% sure about this

Daniel 

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