[vlc-devel] [PATCH 06/11] playlist/directory: attach slaves to input items

[Jean-Baptiste Kempf]

On 06 Apr, Steve Lhomme wrote :
> On Tue, Apr 5, 2016 at 11:09 PM, Benjamin Adolphi <b.adolphi at gmail.com> wrote:
> > Ok, so I realize that it is complicated or probably even impossible to
> > compare URLs in a scheme-independent manner. So what about limiting
> > scope? We don't really want to compare any kind of URL against any
> > other kind of URL. What we want to do is compare filenames and file
> > extensions. So we can of course not do this with URLs that do not have
> > a path. So let's limit which schemes we support to schemes that
> > actually have a path (and that VLC actually supports).
> >
> > In addition, if we are afraid of comparing URLs with different schemes
> > (I am not sure if this is potentially problematic), we can also limit
> > the comparison to only compare URLs with the same scheme. Since we are
> > adding the slaves from the directory demuxer, the slaves and the input
> > item will have have URLs with the same scheme anyways.
> 
> I'd like to know when string comparison of 2 URIs can produce false
> positive. How can "scheme://host:port/path" point to different data
> than "scheme://host:port/path" ? Or is it because of the possible

Can't it happen if host are different but pointing to the same IP?

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