I asked to have it changed ages ago and the answer was "No,
it's a feature".
We could try again of course.
-j
-----Original Message-----
From: Testbed Support for GridPP member institutes
[mailto:[log in to unmask]]On Behalf Of Burke, S (Stephen)
Sent: 07 July 2006 09:42
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Subject: Re: Brunel file copying ... the fog thickens...
Testbed Support for GridPP member institutes
> [mailto:[log in to unmask]] On Behalf Of Jensen, J (Jens) said:
> Someone (not naming names, *cough*) at FNAL applied this logic: if
> <scheme>:// is the top string, and then the <host> and a slash, then
> surely the filesystem comes after that, i.e. another slash for an
> absolute path. Leaving out the host (= localhost) gives you four
> slashes.
Will it be fixed? Otherwise it will break as soon as anyone tries to use
it with some other tool which generates/tolerates/canonicalises to the
correct form ... (similarly see the comment about uppercasing site
names, I already told the FTS developers that was a bad idea!).
Stephen
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