From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1M1htF-0004wx-0g for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Wed, 06 May 2009 10:14:29 -0400 Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1M1ht9-0004uX-QR for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Wed, 06 May 2009 10:14:28 -0400 Received: from [199.232.76.173] (port=50750 helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1M1ht9-0004uO-IK for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Wed, 06 May 2009 10:14:23 -0400 Received: from smtp5-g21.free.fr ([212.27.42.5]:48987) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1M1ht8-00007p-PF for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Wed, 06 May 2009 10:14:23 -0400 In-Reply-To: <4A0199E8.7020605@codemonkey.ws> Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH] Add HTTP protocol using curl v2 From: "=?utf-8?q?Fran=C3=A7ois?= Revol" Date: Wed, 06 May 2009 16:14:46 +0200 CEST Message-Id: <4364166405-BeMail@laptop> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable List-Id: qemu-devel.nongnu.org List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , To: Anthony Liguori Cc: kwolf@redhat.com, alex@csgraf.de, nolan@sigbus.net, qemu-devel@nongnu.org, avi@redhat.com > Avi Kivity wrote: > > Anthony Liguori wrote: > >>> > >>> -drive file=3Dfile:///some/path:with:colons=3F > >> > >> No '///' please. > >> > > > > Why not=3F > > For better or worse, this aren't URIs. The main reason, is that a > URI > requires a hostname as the first component (which is empty in your > URI). But unix domain sockets don't match up with URIs because they > aren't hostnames. Not for file:, which is why there are 3 /, though it's actually * possible* to specify a hostname for file:, it's *not* required, and useless anyway. Fran=C3=A7ois.