> First: I don't think it is clear in any spec that local file:// URLs actually > work.
[Good stuff snipped] > file:// didn't work very good for relaive file paths before this commit [More Good stuff snipped] A word from the peanut gallery: as soon as you think that you understand how this work, go try it on Windows where the "Dos Device Name" makes a mess with a lot of assumptions that all absolute paths start with a '/'. Also not every OS or runtime environment supports the assumption of "current working directory". /Rod ------------------------------------------------------------------- List admin: https://cool.haxx.se/list/listinfo/curl-library Etiquette: https://curl.haxx.se/mail/etiquette.html