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Re: [Sheflug] Viewing hard drive



On Fri, 10 May 2002 12:40:43 +1200 (NZST)
Richard Stevenson <richard.stevenson [at] team.xtra.co.nz> wrote:
>
> You can put a host part in the file URL - try this:
> 
> file://localhost/etc/passwd
> 
> If it's blank, it's supposed to be taken as localhost.  Ref: RFC1738,
> section 3.10.

What's the point? You would need NFS or similar (coda?) fs-level transport
to get file:// from outside the local filesystem hierarchy. Not entirely
sure I like that idea anyway...

--Andrew

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