Re: [xml] Bug in "file" protocol

[Daniel Veillard <veillard redhat com>]

On Sat, Aug 24, 2002 at 11:41:21PM +0200, Daniel Gehriger wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> I believe I found a buglet in xmlIO.c (line 295) : if the "file"
> protocol contains the host specification "localhost", a leading forward
> slash is always included in the path name. This is a problem if the path
> contains a Windows drive letter. That is, the URL
> 
> 	file://localhost/C:/TEMP/foo.xml 
> 
> results in a path name of
> 
> 	/C:/TEMP/foo.xml

  Which is actually what RFC 2396 and the RFC it inherits file:// definition
from define, the last time I checked :-)

> The code that handles "file:///" correctly handles Windows-style paths.

  Okay I added the specific #ifdef for Windows ... But the real error
IMHO is to believe file://localhost/C:/TEMP/foo.xml should be equivalent
from "C:/TEMP/foo.xml", oh well ...

Daniel

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