Re: NSURL path question

[Richard Frith-Macdonald]

On 6 Feb 2004, at 16:55, Stefan Urbanek wrote:

> Hi,
>
> I would like to ask about NSURL path. I'll be more concrete, so here 
> is example in StepTalk script. Consider two paths:
>
>     url_slash := NSURL URLWithString:'http://www.gnustep.org/'.
>     url_no_slash := NSURL URLWithString:'http://www.gnustep.org'.
>
> then try to fetch contents of those URLs:
>
>     string_ok := NSString stringWithContentsOfURL:url_slash.
>     string_broken := NSString stringWithContentsOfURL:url_noslash.
>
> The string_ok is loaded as it should. While loading the string_broken 
> I get:
>
> 2004-02-06 17:44:16.300 stexec[483] File NSString.m: 1708. In 
> [GSPlaceholderString -initWithContentsOfURL:] Contents of URL 
> 'http://www.gnustep.org' are not readable
>
> What is the problem?
> ... path should be default '/' in NSURL?

No ... because MacOS-X doesnt do that.

> ... i should allways check whether path in the url is '/', so if there 
> is no path, I should add it there?

No ... the library should make things easy for you.

> ... there is something wrong with NSURL handle for HTTP protocol?

Yes ... NSURLHandle for the HTTP protocol should use '/' if there is no 
path provided.

I've committed a fix to CVS.