From: Tanaka Akira <akr@...>
Date: 2013-06-25T17:54:44+09:00
Subject: [ruby-core:55644] Re: [ruby-trunk - Feature #8544][Open] OpenURI should open 'file://' URIs

2013/6/19 silasdavis (Silas Davis) <ruby-lang@silasdavis.net>:
> Issue #8544 has been reported by silasdavis (Silas Davis).

> However the following should produce the same output and is a URI, but fails:
>
> open('file:///tmp/file.txt').read {|f| puts f.read }

open(uri) is impelemented as URI.parse(uri).open.

If URI class has a dedicated class for file URI, such as URI::File,
it is possible to implement URI::File#open.
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Tanaka Akira