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

Anne van Kesteren annevk at annevk.nl
Mon Jul 15 11:21:07 PDT 2013


On Tue, Jul 9, 2013 at 2:03 PM, Peter Kasting <pkasting at google.com> wrote:
> 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.

For now I've not done this because it would mean that purported
absolute URLs would not round trip. "file:c:..." is treated as an
absolute path now though (rather than one relative to the base's path
as it was before).


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