[vlc-devel] vlc plugin and attachment:// URIs

[Rémi Denis-Courmont]

Le lundi 20 juillet 2009 23:44:16 Michael A. Puls II, vous avez écrit :
> > If it's attachment:/ as you said earlier, it's plain broken.
>
> Why would "attachment://" be any easier than "attachment:/" to tell that
> you have an attachment URI?

attachment:// is syntaxically valid as a URI scheme. attachment:/ can be 
mistaken for a file path. We need a way to disambiguate. One way is to assume 
that file paths are NEVER used as is (without the file:// prefix). Otherwise, 
attachment:/ is not acceptable.

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