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file: scheme pedantry
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From: Paul Gilmartin via curl-users <curl-users_at_lists.haxx.se>
Date: Sun, 27 Jul 2025 19:23:35 -0600
For a file://path URL, must the path be absolute?
Experiment seems to show it's required, but the
mN page says only:
FILE Read or write local files. curl does not support accessing
file:// URL remotely, but when running on Microsoft Windows
using the native UNC approach works.
Should this emphasize "absolute"?
And RFC 8089:
o The minimal representation of a local file with no authority field
and an absolute path that begins with a slash "/". For example:
* "file:/path/to/file"
(That example should be more concrete, such as either:
"file://etc/services"
or: "file:///etc/services"
curl accepts only the latter.)
Firefox accepts HREF relative to the referencing page.
If the referenced file has extended attributes, should
those be replicated in the downloaded file?
I see that curl replicates the Last-Modified:
Date: Sun, 27 Jul 2025 19:23:35 -0600
For a file://path URL, must the path be absolute?
Experiment seems to show it's required, but the
mN page says only:
FILE Read or write local files. curl does not support accessing
file:// URL remotely, but when running on Microsoft Windows
using the native UNC approach works.
Should this emphasize "absolute"?
And RFC 8089:
o The minimal representation of a local file with no authority field
and an absolute path that begins with a slash "/". For example:
* "file:/path/to/file"
(That example should be more concrete, such as either:
"file://etc/services"
or: "file:///etc/services"
curl accepts only the latter.)
Firefox accepts HREF relative to the referencing page.
If the referenced file has extended attributes, should
those be replicated in the downloaded file?
I see that curl replicates the Last-Modified:
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