[jcifs] SMB URL

[Michael B. Allen]

On Wed, 10 Jul 2002 00:01:15 -0500
"Christopher R. Hertel" <crh at ubiqx.mn.org> wrote:

> On Wed, Jul 10, 2002 at 12:29:59AM -0400, Allen, Michael B (RSCH) wrote:
> > 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).
> 
> No, what I really want to do is work this out, particularly for jCIFS.
> 
> We don't have to do it tonight and, as you say, I don't think that it's a
> big deal because it's not common.  In the rare cases it does happen,
> though, I don't think jCIFS should "zap" the %2E escape.  I think that the
> URL management should handle that.

Oh,  I'm  not  saying  I would intentionally "zap" it. I would get it right
because  we've  discussed it at length. The problem is that users will just
run SMB URLs through the URLDecoder or equivalent and .... well, zap. 

> 
> I've now written some code that partially handles the URL parsing and 
> such.  I don't have a complete enough implementation to demonstrate that 
> it can be done, so I'd be foolish to do more than say that I really don't 
> understand the problem.
> 
> What is the status of URL parsing in 0.6.5?  There were some issues which 
> you were working on.  Perhaps I should be digging into that...

The  SMB  URL handling in jCIFS should be completely functional minus query
parameters  and  scope.  I think a little state machine would be a bit more
elegant though. 

Mike

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