On Sun, 6 Nov 2016, Ray Satiro via curl-library wrote:

>> Then what is the correct way to reference a file by its relative path using
>> libcurl andfile:// ?
>
> There is none, as far as I understand [1]. A conceptual relative file URL
> doesn't have an //authority or even a scheme it is supposed to be based on
> another URL.

Might be useful to look at:

https://url.spec.whatwg.org/

and

https://tools.ietf.org/html/draft-ietf-appsawg-file-scheme-03

The draft has expired but may have impacted 7320 which
updates 3986: https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc7320

It is a mess...

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Monty Brandenberg
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