IP address HTTP protocol:

http://192.168.0.1:9090

Windows Shares:

We only use backward slashes (“\”) for Windows shares.

F:\workingdir\proxy

Since we will consume this string, we need to add double backslashes to avoid escape characters: 

F:\\workingdir\\proxy

Network Shares:

//192.168.111.217/workingdir/proxy

Mac Shares:

/Volumes/workingdir/proxy

Linux Shares:

/mnt/workingdir/proxy

Path tuples 

“Local path” might be an exception since we must send the string to the backend.  We are using backward slashes for network shares in Windows OS.

Since we will consume this string, we need to add double backslashes to avoid escape characters:  

    \\\\192.168.0.1\\mediafolder

     F:\\