On 5 nov 2009, at 01.10, Joshua Kwan wrote:
> 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:

You're specifying your URL wrong. The schema for file:// URLs is
file://<host>/<path> so what you need either

file:///C:/...

or

file://localhost/C:/...

If those doesn't work then cURL is doing something wrong.

Cheers,
Claes
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