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   Federico Mena Quintero (federicomena@mstdn.mx)'s status on Thursday, 20-Jul-2023 14:15:32 JST Federico Mena Quintero

   So... file: URLs can have a query, like file:///foo/bar.txt?blah

   But why? Is there anything that would handle that?

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     Federico Mena Quintero (federicomena@mstdn.mx)'s status on Thursday, 20-Jul-2023 14:15:28 JST Federico Mena Quintero

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     • James Henstridge

     @jamesh hehe, I haven't really learned how hostnames play with UNC paths or if they are even related.

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     James Henstridge (jamesh@aus.social)'s status on Thursday, 20-Jul-2023 14:15:29 JST James Henstridge

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     @federicomena That seems to be an evolution of generic URI syntax (https://www.rfc-editor.org/rfc/rfc3986). That is, rules designed to let you parse arbitrary URLs.

     It doesn't mean that every component is meaningful for every scheme. For instance, you could construct a file URI with a hostname that isn't empty or "localhost" and it would parse according to the generic rules, but wouldn't be meaningful.

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     James Henstridge (jamesh@aus.social)'s status on Thursday, 20-Jul-2023 14:15:31 JST James Henstridge

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     @federicomena The query component isn't part of the syntax described in https://www.rfc-editor.org/rfc/rfc8089.html#section-2

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     Federico Mena Quintero (federicomena@mstdn.mx)'s status on Thursday, 20-Jul-2023 14:15:31 JST Federico Mena Quintero

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     • James Henstridge

     @jamesh https://url.spec.whatwg.org/#url-parsing seems to disagree 🤷♂️

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     Wesley Moore (wezm@mastodon.decentralised.social)'s status on Thursday, 20-Jul-2023 14:15:39 JST Wesley Moore

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     @federicomena SQLite uses it https://www.sqlite.org/uri.html

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     Hubert Figuière (hub@cosocial.ca)'s status on Thursday, 20-Jul-2023 14:15:48 JST Hubert Figuière

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     @federicomena if you open the file in a web browser, and it's html or even JS, the JS code can access the query parameters. Same with anchors `#`

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