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

[Laurent Aimar]

On Fri, Jun 15, 2007, Rémi Denis-Courmont wrote:
> On Fri, 15 Jun 2007 10:10:11 +0100, Damien Fouilleul
> <damien.fouilleul at laposte.net> wrote:
> > well, i've always been a pragmatic guy, i don't like restricting users
> > more than it is strictly necessary. Regarding the MRL format, whether
> > it's lame or not, i have no problem allowing format such as udp:1.2.3.4
> > as long as the meaning is unambiguous, i mean firefox has no problem
> > accepting file:c: and will dutifuly convert it as file:///c:/. Sometimes
> > the 'right' URL format is more confusing than the lame version ;)
> 
> That works because you use a platform that has restrictions on filenames,
> due to a prehistoric legacy file system hierarchy commonly known as
> "drive letters".
> 
> On platforms where colon is allowed, this whole idea does not work.
> And it's not theoretical: we've had a bunch of complaints about not
> being able to open media files with colon into them.
> 
> And I would rather have a consistent URL handling across platforms.

 On not well formed url like x:y there is an amiguity if it is a file 
or an url (if 'x' is a valid access name).
 I think in this case we could favour file and then protocol if is not a file.
 All we need would be a little check with stat() in InputSourceInit before
calling MRLSplit (and prepend file:// when needed)
 What do you think ?

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fenrir

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