[jcifs] jcifs-0.7.0b5 released

[Christopher R. Hertel]

Ah.  This is what I was missing when I read your questions about URL 
parsing a while back.  Sorry I was being dense...

*  URLs that represent workgroups, servers, shares, or directories
   must have a trailing slash '/'.

  That's a problem from a user-interface point of view.  People are used
  to entering http://yahoo.com and getting yahoo.com.  No trailing slash.
  I am surprised that the java.net.URL class doesn't handle this sort of 
  thing.

*  Canonicalization does not exceed the host component of the URL. So
   smb://host/share/path/ + ../../../../foo/ is canonicalized to 
   smb://host/foo/ whereas previously the client would have reduced this 
   to smb://foo/.

  That's also a problem, but it may be a problem with the SMB URL format 
  rather than java.net.URL.  I don't know of any other URL form that 
  assigns meaning to <scheme>:// the way the SMB URL does.  That's a 
  question for the URL gurus.  It may be inherently broken.

:

*  Composing a URL with a workgroup and a second paremeter like
   smb://workgroup/ + server/share/path/ used to be intellegent enough to
   eliminate workgroup. This will now blindly compose the two arguments to
   give smb://workgroup/server/share/path/ which is an illegal SMB URL.

  This is really smb://workgroup/ + path since we don't know that the path 
  components represent a server or share until they are evaluated
  semantically.  Still, I understand the point.  If we know (semantically) 
  that the URL "smb://workgroup/" represents a workgroup then we should 
  also know that adding anything to it would be invalid.  The only way to 
  handle that situation is to remove the workgroup part and hope that the 
  next part is a server identifier--a reasonable guess.

I still think that a layer needs to be written above the java.net.URL 
layer.  Perhaps all it would do is parse and rebuild the URL before 
handing it to java.net.URL.  Of course, that means having some semantic 
information, which means network traffic.  Hmmm...  I also understand that 
the java.net.URL class is final.  Dang.  Ah, well...

Chris -)-----

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