Re: Java Web Start

Andrew Thompson wrote:
Lew wrote:
Andrew Thompson wrote:
file:/D:/projects/TellURL.java
Actually the url's were correct and yours is wrong :-)
(snip RFC 1738 detail)
Andrew Thompson wrote:
Interesting, but... The URL shown above, is what Java printed out when I ran the code. Are you saying Java's handling of URL's is buggy*?
It's the number of slashes after the protocol colon ("file://" vs. "file:/") that's at issue here, right?

That is part of what I find confusing, but I am also a little unclear on whether 'home' (in Robert's example)
represents a drive. If not, how does whatever is resolving the URL know where to start?

Referencing: "file:///home/robert". Only the first two slashes are part of the protocol string.

The third slash is the root "/" of the file system, so it starts at "/".

In the case of Windows, it treats "C:" as a path element. The file: URLs for that drive should look like
file:///C:/directory/.../whatever
since in Windows the "root" is imaginary and just ahead of the drive letter.

--
Lew
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