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Drive letter handling in file:// URLs - Win32

From: Joshua Kwan <jkwan_at_vmware.com>
Date: Wed, 4 Nov 2009 16:10:04 -0800

Hey guys.

On Win32, it seems like file:// URLs containing drive letters don't work right (current CVS source.)

When I specify file://C:/blah.txt as a URL, the 'C:' is actually stripped away because url.c (ParseURLAndFillConnection) thinks that the C: is a hostname. I think we need to special case it as such:

(on win32 only)
"If the 'hostname' component of the file:// URL contains at least two characters and that second character is ':', make it part of the path, do NOT discard it."

Right now, asking cURL to download file://D:/blah.txt when you are running from C: doesn't work, because it essentially calls open("\blah.txt"), which is wrong.

Does this seem reasonable? I can bang out a patch for that pretty quick.
-Josh

P.S. Also, could someone commit Costa's threaded resolver patch to CVS so the developer body at large can begin testing it in earnest?
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