Version under review: https://tools.ietf.org/html/draft-ietf-appsawg-file-scheme-02
There hasn’t been – to this point – a document that describes how the file://
scheme works, and for that reason this is a good document. We are glad to see that the document specifies how to convert between file URIs and OS-dependent system filepaths.
Regarding the use of file://
URIs on the web, there are a few issues that
need to be resolved for interoperability:
- How does
file://
fit into the web's origin model? - How does retrieval of file URIs fit into Fetch?
This document does not address any of these issues, so we hope to see future work that does.