On Thu, 31 Jul 2008 19:19:37 +0100 (BST), John-Mark Bell wrote:

> On RISC OS, our runtime library performs this conversion transparently. 
> Your alternative would be to implement a platform-specific handler for 
> file: URLs. Then you can do whatever you like.

Will that replace the file handler that CURL already adds?

> See content/fetchers/fetch_*.c for existing fetch handlers. I think 
> there's also one in beos/, as that has some slightly different 
> requirements, too.
> 
> Overall, this seems far cleaner that changing NetSurf's core + the 
> underlying fetch library (cURL) to gain support for specific platforms).

It does seem a little bit overkill , given that CURL already does what
it needs to do - it is just being fed too many slashes at the start of
the path.

I'll leave this one for now, I think.

Chris

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