[XML-SIG] file urls in urllib

[Michael McLay]

On Wednesday 07 March 2001 17:15, Martin v. Loewis wrote:
> > rfc 1738 states:
>
> translation between a file name and a <path> is meant to be executed
> in a system-dependent manner, but many systems failed to define a
> procedure for doing so. Considering that one needs to distinguish the
> drv case, the logical form would be
>
> file://C:/autoexec.bat

This mapping skips a slash for the hostname. I'm using a commercial tool, XML 
Authority, that is written in Java.  It maps the local file:

	C:/windows/command.com

to:
	file:///C:/windows/command.com

This looks consistent with the example mapping of a VMS logical drive in RFC 
1738:

  For example, a VMS file

     DISK$USER:[MY.NOTES]NOTE123456.TXT

   might become

     <URL:file://vms.host.edu/disk$user/my/notes/note12345.txt>