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RE: Problems with file://

From: Daniel Stenberg <daniel_at_haxx.se>
Date: Wed, 13 Sep 2000 16:47:03 +0200 (MET DST)

On Wed, 13 Sep 2000, Stenberg Björn wrote:

> It shouldn't look up the name anyway, IMO. The file:// protocol should
> work even on computers with no network.

True. The spec says it could be a host name there, it does not however
specify how to access a file on that host. Which makes sense, file:// is for
local files.

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Received on 2000-09-13