From: "phluid61 (Matthew Kerwin)" <matthew@...>
Date: 2013-06-24T08:54:45+09:00
Subject: [ruby-core:55617] [ruby-trunk - Feature #8544] OpenURI should open 'file://' URIs


Issue #8544 has been updated by phluid61 (Matthew Kerwin).


naruse (Yui NARUSE) wrote:
> For file scheme,
> http://tools.ietf.org/html/draft-hoffman-file-uri-03
> http://url.spec.whatwg.org/
> 
> http://suika.fam.cx/~wakaba/wiki/sw/n/file has additional points but in Japanese

These are excellent resources, I wasn't sure about (and wasn't able to find) the Hoffman draft when I started.  Thank you very much.
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Feature #8544: OpenURI should open 'file://' URIs
https://bugs.ruby-lang.org/issues/8544#change-40106

Author: silasdavis (Silas Davis)
Status: Open
Priority: Normal
Assignee: 
Category: core
Target version: next minor


The following code prints the contents of '/tmp/file.txt':

require 'open-uri'
open('/tmp/file.txt').read {|f| puts f.read }

which although useful should probably fail since a unix file path is not a URI, and therefore might shield data problems in a system

However the following should produce the same output and is a URI, but fails:

open('file:///tmp/file.txt').read {|f| puts f.read }

I note that the documentation for open-uri does explain that it is a wrapper for http, https, and ftp, but to deserve its name it should open such URIs as specified in this RFC: http://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc1630. This coupled with the fact that it already does open files, but not by a URI specification.



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