Parsing of URL's which contain Windows Path separator (original) (raw)

Shirish Kuncolienkar shirishk at linux.vnet.ibm.com
Thu Aug 9 01:53:20 PDT 2012

Hi,

I have the following piece of code

     URL url = new URL("file", "/", "C:\\temp\\Java6");
     System.out.println(url);
     URL url1 = new URL(url, "hello.html");
     System.out.println(url1);

first System out prints as "file:///C:\temp\Java6\Lotus" Second one prints the value "file:////hello.html"

As mentioned by URL parser specification the windows path separator happens to be a special character and hence the whole path is considered as a single block. However it will be useful for the URL class to take consider "" character as a path separator as a special case and be able create relative url which is a valid one.

I see mozilla browser simply replaces the "" by a "/" and continues. URL parser could follow a similar approach.

Any thoughts ?

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