From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1M1eBY-0001Hr-BZ for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Wed, 06 May 2009 06:17:08 -0400 Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1M1eBT-0001Dv-RH for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Wed, 06 May 2009 06:17:07 -0400 Received: from [199.232.76.173] (port=56420 helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1M1eBT-0001Do-ER for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Wed, 06 May 2009 06:17:03 -0400 Received: from mx2.redhat.com ([66.187.237.31]:37201) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1M1eBT-0001aF-2Z for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Wed, 06 May 2009 06:17:03 -0400 Message-ID: <4A016361.60908@redhat.com> Date: Wed, 06 May 2009 12:16:01 +0200 From: Kevin Wolf 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 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: alex@csgraf.de, nolan@sigbus.net, Avi Kivity , qemu-devel@nongnu.org Daniel P. Berrange schrieb: > 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. Existing usage would mean to get an error message. I don't see any reason why we should change this behaviour if we have a real solution. Adding more exceptions to the guessing doesn't really make it more harmless. Kevin