On Tue, 5 Aug 2003, David Byron wrote:

> $ ./curl -v file://c:/src/cobra/curl/tests/log/test200.txt
>
> by the time I get to Curl_file_connect,
>
> conn->path is /src/cobra/curl/tests/log/test200.txt
>
> After reading RFC 1738 (section 3.10 of
> http://www.rfc-editor.org/rfc/rfc1738.txt), it appears the above URL may not
> be right.

Right, it misses one slash after the initial file:.

> Is file://localhost/c:/src/cobra/curl/tests/log/test200.txt or perhaps
> file:///c:/src/cobra/curl/tests/log/test200.txt
>
> more correct?

Both of these are fine. The host name part of the file:// URLs are always just
stripped by the code in url.c.

-- 
 Daniel Stenberg -- curl: been grokking URLs since 1998
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