Ah - thanks for the explanation, I bet that's why it worked for me before and not later when the path I selected, changed. The space will be it, this code worked 4 days ago and I've not done any updates.
On Wed, Feb 18, 2009 at 8:10 PM, Ken Thomases <k...@codeweavers.com> wrote: > On Feb 18, 2009, at 1:15 AM, Christian Graus wrote: > > I will look to see what fileURLWithPath returns tho, b/c the string is the >> same as it was the last time I ran this, but last time it worked ( the >> code >> has not changed, so I am mystified ) >> > > It may have worked, but it is not a generally correct thing to do. A file > path may contain characters that a URL may not, like a space. So, taking a > file path and prepending file:// does not necessarily make it a valid URL > string. > > It may be that an update to the system frameworks tightened up the > validation of URL strings passed to -[NSURL initWithString:], causing > something which used to work to now fail. Such validation tightening is > typical of security updates. > > Cheers, > Ken > > _______________________________________________ Cocoa-dev mailing list (Cocoa-dev@lists.apple.com) Please do not post admin requests or moderator comments to the list. Contact the moderators at cocoa-dev-admins(at)lists.apple.com Help/Unsubscribe/Update your Subscription: http://lists.apple.com/mailman/options/cocoa-dev/archive%40mail-archive.com This email sent to arch...@mail-archive.com
