Hi,
I have the following piece of code
URL url = new URL("file", "/", "C:\\temp\\Java6");
System.out.println(url);
URL url1 = new URL(url, "hello.html");
System.out.println(url1);
first System out prints as "file:///C:\temp\Java6\Lotus"
Second one prints the value "file:////hello.html"
As mentioned by URL parser specification the windows path separator
happens to be a special character and hence the whole path is considered
as a single block.
However it will be useful for the URL class to take consider "\"
character as a path separator as a special case and be able create
relative url which is a valid one.
I see mozilla browser simply replaces the "\" by a "/" and continues.
URL parser could follow a similar approach.
Any thoughts ?
