[whatwg] URL: "relative" file URL starting with "c:" quirk

[Peter Kasting]

On Tue, Jul 9, 2013 at 10:57 AM, Anne van Kesteren <annevk at annevk.nl> wrote:

> On Mon, Jul 8, 2013 at 6:23 PM, Peter Kasting <pkasting at google.com> wrote:
> > Given how unlikely it is that someone will have registered a scheme
> handler
> > for the one-character drive letters, the Chrome/IE behavior seems more
> > forgiving and more likely what the author wants, to me.
>
> But it also forks the semantics of generic URLs, or at least when the
> base URL happens to be a file URL. Those kind of exceptions are not
> exactly ideal. In particular treating an absolute URL as a relative
> URL under certain circumstances seems bad.


I don't see this as a security risk, and if the behavior is desirable, it
seems fairly well-scoped in terms of specifying it.

PK