I have recently reworked the browsers url to path conversions to come from teh file operations table and to use nsurl instead of strings for urls. From this I have eliminated a great deal of duplicated, problematic, conversion code.
There are two generic helpers available by including utils/file.h nserror netsurf_nsurl_to_path(struct nsurl *url, char **path_out); nserror netsurf_path_to_nsurl(const char *path, struct nsurl **url); I have converted all uses of conversion to these functions but please, please can frontend maintainers check my work. As ChrisY demonstarted recently, even if the core change is correct and tested on one platform it can mess up elsewhere. This rework now means that almost all the netsurf internal API now uses our nsurl url functions (missing is launch_url() set_url() and save_url() which I intend to fix soon) For many file related url handling this has greatly reduced the number of string to url to string conversions and made our scheme handling much more robust. It is my hope that frontend maintainers are happy with this move, if not can they explain their objections clearly and propose an alternative solution. I also intend to extend the nsurl component API slightly to allow retrieval of escaped path elements, my eventual thought here is to be able to remove the old string based URL API (see utils/url.h) -- Regards Vincent http://www.kyllikki.org/
