[vlc-devel] Re: [RFC] sanitize MRL format

[Antoine Cellerier]

On Wed, Jun 06, 2007, Rémi Denis-Courmont wrote:
> Still, I would say that the "cleanest" solution would to enforce that 
> the colon always be followed by two (or more) slashes, otherwise it 
> will be considered part of the filename. That will break lame MRL such 
> as udp:1.2.3.4 (but that's so inexcusably lame!) however. And it means 
> you have to use "http:/www.google.com" if you want to open 
> the "www.google.com" file from the "http:" directory.

I agree. I doubt that many people use the syntax without the double
slashes anyway.

-- 
Antoine Cellerier
dionoea

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