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

[Daniel P. Berrange]

On Wed, May 06, 2009 at 12:16:01PM +0200, Kevin Wolf wrote:
> Daniel P. Berrange schrieb:
> > 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.
> 
> Existing usage would mean to get an error message. I don't see any
> reason why we should change this behaviour if we have a real solution.
> Adding more exceptions to the guessing doesn't really make it more harmless.

By existing usage, I meant the practice of supplying an absolute filename
to QEMU, which works all the time, except if you're unlucky to have a colon
in the filename, in which case it breaks, even though it could  trivially
work. Getting an error for an absolute path with a colon is a bug IMHO,
rather than useful behaviour.

Daniel
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