Re: [xml] xmlNewInputFromFile URI problems on Win32

[Daniel Veillard <veillard redhat com>]

On Thu, Nov 02, 2006 at 07:31:41PM +1100, Michael Day wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> When I call this on Windows:
> 
>      input = xmlNewInputFromFile(ctxt, "c:\\foo.xml");
> 
> the resulting input->filename looks like this:
> 
>      file:///c%3A/foo.html
> 
> Should the colon really be escaped?

  it's in the reserved group of RFC 2396, so I guess that yes this sounds
the proper behaviour.

> Even worse, calling xmlPathToURI gives this:
> 
>      file%3A///c%253A/foo.html
> 
> This appears to have been doubly escaped. Are there some issues with URL 
> handling on Windows?

  As I stated before the release, "please test on Windows", as there is
no way I can test myself. Maybe nobody tried before the release and hence
problems are popping out now ...
  I take patches, that's all I can say :-\

Daniel

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