[py-dev] towards a 0.8.0 release!

[Samuele Pedroni]

Samuele Pedroni wrote:
> 
> well the first thing I notice is file:// instead of file:///, maybe it 
> works on Unix with two slashes but the file: protocol really needs 
> three, I remember on windows this being quite important because of the 
> drive thing. Or file://localhost/.
> See also
> 
> http://svnbook.red-bean.com/en/1.0/ch02s03.html#svn-ch-2-table-1
> 
> 
> And you probably don't want back-slashes even % encoded, but just slashes.
> 

indeed reading the relevant specs % encoding can be used inside path 
segments (that means what is between // slashes) but the segments 
themself need to separated by plain unencoded slashes.