[4suite-dev] URIs in the repo, revisited (addendum)

[Mike Olson]

On Tue, 2002-12-10 at 14:21, Jeremy Kloth wrote:
> On Tuesday 10 December 2002 09:42 am, Mike Brown wrote:
> > Can you tell me what the intent is for file URIs? e.g., when the current
> > doc is something from the repo, and it contains an absolute URI ref like
> > 'file:///path/to/some/file', do you want to look on the local filesystem,
> > or should this be interpreted as the repo path /path/to/some/file?
> >
> 
> >From a security standpoint, a don't like the ability for documents to get 
> access with the server's system access to a file on the host system.  

I agree.  FYI, the original intent was to allow people to reference
things outside of the repository.  We first checked in the repo to see
if it was there, and if not, try to resolve it normally.

Given 
> that, it would then be possible to implement the file scheme as the way into 
> the repository, since the file scheme is defined as as being machine 
> dependent anyway.

I think this is a good idea.

Mike

> 
> Jeremy
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