Yup, that does it. That's probably a worthwhile FAQ option though, because I'm sure a lot of people try file://D:/blah.txt and have to scratch their heads for a while.

-Josh

-----Original Message-----
From: curl-library-bounces_at_cool.haxx.se [mailto:curl-library-bounces_at_cool.haxx.se] On Behalf Of Daniel Stenberg
Sent: Thursday, November 05, 2009 1:51 AM
To: libcurl development
Subject: Re: Drive letter handling in file:// URLs - Win32

On Thu, 5 Nov 2009, Daniel Stenberg wrote:

> I think libcurl is doing it wrong. It assumes a unix-style path to follow,
> so it uses the path part with a prefixed slash (since the path is treated as
> an absolute one) which leads to it trying to open something like
> "/C:/tmp/testfile" ...

Actually, my cygwin curl was very old and might be wrong. Perhaps someone on
Windows could just debug this case as I just now read the lib/file.c code, and
to me it looks correct!

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  / daniel.haxx.se
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