Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH] Add HTTP protocol using curl v2

[Avi Kivity]

Daniel P. Berrange wrote:
> Oh and if you want to be really nice, you could say that any filename
> with a leading '/' is implicitly file:///, since I can't imagine
> any protocol name starting with a  '/'.  And this would ensure any
> existing usage with absolute filenames 'just works' without tripping
> up on colons.
>   

A protocol should match ^[a-zA-Z][a-zA-Z0-9_-]*://, anything else is a file.

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