Re: I-D ACTION:draft-ietf-secsh-scp-sftp-ssh-uri-00.txt

[Bill Sommerfeld <sommerfeld%east.sun.com@localhost>]

(again, wg chair hat off..)

> (Unless you're mandating that the _server_ in the 'c:/' case must be
> capable of throwing away a leading slash? But that seems like a
> requirement on server behaviour as well as URI format, which is
> fairly serious remit creep...)

An alternative (which would confuse a different set of people) would
be to always eat the / after then hostname-part of the URL, so for
unix systems, you'd see URL's like:

scp://user@hostname/.login     (referring to the .login in your home directory)
scp://user@hostname//etc/passwd

On the other hand, this would also make

scp://user1@hostname/~user2/foo

less of a special case.

					- Bill