Hi,

It appears to me there is a small bug in LWP::Protocol::file. The '/' 
added to the end of each directory member which is itself a directory, 
is escaped when turning it into a url, making the url quite useless. I 
suggest the following patch:

--- /usr/lib/perl5/vendor_perl/5.8.4/LWP/Protocol/file.old      2004-09-19 
22:56:35.786858776 +0300
+++ /usr/lib/perl5/vendor_perl/5.8.4/LWP/Protocol/file.pm       2004-09-19 
22:56:24.000000000 +0300
@@ -96,14 +96,13 @@
        closedir(D);
 
        # Make directory listing
+        my $pathe = $path . ( $^O eq 'MacOS' ? ':' : '/');
        for (@files) {
-           if($^O eq "MacOS") {
-               $_ .= "/" if -d "$path:$_";
-           }
-           else {
-               $_ .= "/" if -d "$path/$_";
-           }
            my $furl = URI::Escape::uri_escape($_);
+            if ( -d "$pathe$_" ) {
+                $furl .= '/';
+                $_ .= '/';
+            }
            my $desc = HTML::Entities::encode($_);
            $_ = qq{<LI><A HREF="$furl">$desc</A>};
        }


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