From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1M1eAC-0000cZ-QW for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Wed, 06 May 2009 06:15:44 -0400 Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1M1eA9-0000ZG-0i for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Wed, 06 May 2009 06:15:44 -0400 Received: from [199.232.76.173] (port=56403 helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1M1eA8-0000Z4-LG for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Wed, 06 May 2009 06:15:40 -0400 Received: from mx2.redhat.com ([66.187.237.31]:58821) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1M1eA7-0001Rl-S7 for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Wed, 06 May 2009 06:15:40 -0400 Message-ID: <4A016325.7070205@redhat.com> Date: Wed, 06 May 2009 13:15:01 +0300 From: Avi Kivity MIME-Version: 1.0 Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH] Add HTTP protocol using curl v2 References: <1241571650-16212-1-git-send-email-alex@csgraf.de> <20090506082810.GB23167@redhat.com> <4A0154E9.7020705@redhat.com> <20090506093143.GC23167@redhat.com> <4A015F06.7050102@redhat.com> <20090506100628.GD23167@redhat.com> <20090506101324.GE23167@redhat.com> In-Reply-To: <20090506101324.GE23167@redhat.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit List-Id: qemu-devel.nongnu.org List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , To: "Daniel P. Berrange" Cc: Kevin Wolf , alex@csgraf.de, nolan@sigbus.net, qemu-devel@nongnu.org Daniel P. Berrange wrote: > Oh and if you want to be really nice, you could say that any filename > with a leading '/' is implicitly file:///, since I can't imagine > any protocol name starting with a '/'. And this would ensure any > existing usage with absolute filenames 'just works' without tripping > up on colons. > A protocol should match ^[a-zA-Z][a-zA-Z0-9_-]*://, anything else is a file. -- Do not meddle in the internals of kernels, for they are subtle and quick to panic.