Re: (ITS#3636) more flexible file: URLs in LDIFs

[ando@sys-net.it]

peter@adpm.de wrote:

>Full_Name: Peter Marschall
>Version: 2.2, 2.3, HEAD
>OS: Linux
>URL: ftp://ftp.openldap.org/incoming/peter-marschall-050406.patch
>Submission from: (NULL) (84.56.99.111)
>
>
>Hi,
>
>without the libfetch library OpenLDAP's ability to interpret file: URLs is
>quite
>limited. E.g. it does only allow file: URLs with absolute paths.
>
>True to the old sendmail motto "be liberal what you accept, be strict in what
>you send", the attached patch adds a bit more flexibility to the parsing of
>file: URLs in LDIFs.
>
>It allows the following 4 forms of URLs:
>- file:/absolute/path/to.ldif      (absolute path without a host)
>- file:relative/path/to.ldif       (relative path without a host)
>- file:to.ldif                     (without host and path)
>- file://to.ldif                   (without host and path)
>While none of these may comply 100% to the standard, they are accepted in other
>programs (e.g. KDE, perl-ldap, ...).
>
>The patch was made against 2.2.24, but should also apply cleanly to HEAD since
>the interesting parts in the source in HEAD look identical to those in 2.2.24
>  
>
Personally, I find this of limited usefulness and potentially prone to 
errors (typically, people tend to forget the third "/" that indicates 
that the path is absolute; in this case I prefer to get an error rather 
than a path being used as relative); moreover, in many cases it may not 
be intuitive what the path is intended to be relative to.  In any case, 
I wouldn't use anything that is lacking the first two "//", because what 
makes the prefix an URL is the "<proto>://" structure.

p.


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