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Re: [apps-discuss] I-D Action: draft-ietf-appsawg-file-scheme-07.txt

Daniel Stenberg <daniel@haxx.se> Thu, 21 April 2016 06:35 UTC

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On Thu, 21 Apr 2016, Matthew Kerwin wrote:

> You know what, I think you're right, and I've been suffering from
> confirmation bias. I just tested it again, and both Chromium and Firefox do
> treat my machine's network name the same as "localhost".

They treat _any_ name as localhost as far as my tests show (on Linux). And so 
does curl.

Figuring out your own name and making sure the name in the file:// URI is one 
of those is really tricky (and slow) business.

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