[jcifs] SMB URL

Wed Jul 10 14:29:59 EST 2002

Chris,

If you really want to include scope in the name then go ahead. No one will support a dot in a NetBIOS name anyway so the whole debate is moot. In theory your scheme will probably work so you're
covered. In practice implementers will zap that %2E escape and thus render such names invalid but that's insignificant in the scope of things (pun intended).

Mike

> -----Original Message-----
> From:	Christopher R. Hertel [SMTP:crh at ubiqx.mn.org]
> Sent:	Wednesday, July 10, 2002 12:00 AM
> To:	Allen, Michael B (RSCH)
> Cc:	'crh at ubiqx.mn.org'; jcifs at samba.org
> Subject:	Re: [jcifs] SMB URL
> 
> On Tue, Jul 09, 2002 at 11:29:36PM -0400, Allen, Michael B (RSCH) wrote:
> :
> > 	Create a trivial page like:
> > 
> > 	<html><body>
> > 	<a href="http://jcifs%2Esamba.org/">Mouse over this and look at
> >       the status bar</a>
> > 	</body></html>
> 
> I get:
> 
>   http://jcifs%2Esamba.org/
>               ^^^
> in the status bar, and the same error when I click on the link.  Again, I 
> think Netscape is wrong in this case.  %2E translates to a dot ('.') which 
> is a legal character in the host field.
> 
> Chris -)-----
> 
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