On Tue, 13 Apr 2010 11:31:31 +0100, Daniel Silverstone wrote: > On Mon, Apr 12, 2010 at 11:48:30PM +0100, John-Mark Bell wrote: > > In theory, this patch fixes handling of file: URIs. > > It behaves correctly with the RISC OS, GTK, and framebuffer frontends. > > It needs testing with Amiga, BeOS, and Windows frontends.
Just checking the Amiga frontend now, will report back. > I assume the additional / is because windows paths don't begin with a /, but > what about the fact that a lot of file URLs on windows seem to have the : of > the drive separator replaced with a | -- is this something we should handle / > care about or are we okay with that : which sort-of implies that the authority > would contain / etc. > > The amiga port also seems to carry this difference. The extra slash will be because the path doesn't start with a slash. Colons in the path are never translated in file: URLs on the Amiga (that I've seen anyway), although it is more common to see file://localhost/drive:path than file:///drive:path Chris
