Jeff Lowery wrote:

>  File URLs seem to be interpreted diffently by different applications.  I've
>  seen file:///c:/ fail, or get converted to file://c:/ or file:/c:/ by
>  various tools depending presumably on phase of the moon. 

Me too.  I'd try really hard to stay away from them if you possible can, 
since every operating system, browser, and programming library seems to 
have its own opinion.  On a lot of computers you can run a local web 
server and get at local data with http://localhost/whatever URIs, which 
is generally a lot safer.

-- 
Cheers, Tim Bray
         (ongoing fragmented essay: http://www.tbray.org/ongoing/)



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