On Thu, 31 Jul 2008 00:01:25 +0100, Rob Kendrick wrote:

> On 30 Jul 2008 23:44:20 +0100
> "Chris Young" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> 
> > I now have lots of work to do writing native code, currently it opens
> > a window, fetches a page and sets the window's title - and then sits
> > in an endless loop doing nothing, as that's as far as I got.
> 
> If you want a Subversion account to check your current work in, please
> ask.  Checking in often and early is worthwhile; especially given we've
> made quite large changes to the Make system recently.

Yes please - that will be very useful.  I'm working with an SVN
snapshot at the moment and I can see it getting further and further
behind.

> > btw, file: URLs seem to be adding a slash to the beginning of the
> > path, no matter how I specify them.  This is very annoying, as a slash
> > at the start of a path indicates the parent of the current directory.
> 
> Ah, that may be a bad assumption on my part.  All the /sensible/ OSes
> treat multiple contiguous slashes as a single one. :)

But then you miss out on the fun of ram:t//clipboards/0 etc ;)

I also don't see why this wasn't a problem for RISC OS, last time I
checked a slash was a valid filename character rather than a path
separator, so I would expect it to complain profusely if this was
present at the start of a fully-qualified path.

> You'll want to examine the content of content/fetchers/fetch_data.c

I can't see anything relevant in there.  There is some code in
fetch_curl.c which handles the filetypes:

if (strncmp(f->url, "file:///", 8) == 0)
url_path = curl_unescape(f->url + 7,
(int) strlen(f->url) - 7);

Changing the two 7s to 8s here appears to send the correct path to
the local MIME type routine.

I assume exactly the same code is elsewhere but I can't find it.

I'm told that file:/// is correct (and there is certainly code
elsewhere which converts file:// to file:///), but path_to_url in
urldb.c only adds two?

I think I probably need an #ifdef in the code which picks out the path
from the URL, so it starts at the eighth character instead of the
seventh.  Maybe this can be a global variable or defined in
utils/config.h, as I can see it being a problem for other platforms as
well (eg. Windows).

Chris

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