RE: [boost] [filesystem] '.' directory-placeholder added

From: William E. Kempf (wekempf_at_[hidden])
Date: 2003-06-13 14:43:53

Reece Dunn said:
> Beman Dawes wrote:
>
>>I gave that some consideration at one time, but the full URI spec
>> (http://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc2396.txt) covers so much that is totally
>> outside the scope of a filesystem library that it really seems an
>> over-generalization to try to included it as part of filesystem::path.
>> The  tail would soon be wagging the dog:-)
>
> I was not suggesting that URL handling was a part of the file system
> library. What I was considering was a URL library with a *bridge* to the
>  file system library, e.g. (I may have the names wrong):
>
>    boost::url::url localsite( "http://localhost/xml/docs/overview.xml"
> );
>
>    // use native OS interface:
>    boost::path localpath1 = boost::url::getpath( localsite );

This mapping can't be easily done.  Where this maps to is basically known
only to the web server.  A mapping from a "file://xml/docs/overview.xml"
URI would be useful, however.  It should also be fairly trivial.

-- 
William E. Kempf