[Advanced-java] URL & protocol

[Joe Sam Shirah]

    Hi Marco,

    The short answer from a very long discussion on the RMI list some years
back is:

    file:/

    and

    file:///

will work in your code.

file://

will not.

    Some things you just accept after a while.  Otherwise, wade through the
code, which I actually did, but have now forgotten...


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----- Original Message -----
From: "Marco Ferretti" <marco.ferretti@jrc.it>
To: <advanced-java@lists.xcf.berkeley.edu>
Sent: Wednesday, July 02, 2003 11:38 AM
Subject: [Advanced-java] URL & protocol


Hi there, it's me again...
I have a question that concerns the URL class and the protocol.

Suppose I want to open an URL to get a file on the hard disk...
I supposed the protocol would be "file://"
I tried to open a file in mozilla and what I get is file:///
Ie doesn't even show the protocol.
A component I found on the net opens it with "file:/"
 Now I am a little bit confused ...
I checked out the api guide to get infos and it redirected me to
http://archive.ncsa.uiuc.edu/SDG/Software/Mosaic/Demo/url-primer.html  which
doesn't say much concerning to my problem.

Do anyone of you can point me somewhere please ?