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url-expand-file-name expands wrongly on Windows

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From: "Juanma Barranquero" <lekktu <at> gmail.com>
To: "Stefan Monnier" <monnier <at> iro.umontreal.ca>
Cc: "Klaus Straubinger" <KSNetz <at> usenet.arcornews.de>,
        1020 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#1020: url-default-expander expands wrongly on Windows
Date: Tue, 13 Jan 2009 03:09:00 +0100

On Thu, Mar 27, 2008 at 14:54, Stefan Monnier <monnier <at> iro.umontreal.ca> wrote:

>> the function url-default-expander calls expand-file-name which
>> inserts interesting but wrong drive letters into URLs when called
>> on Windows.
>
> Can you show an example so as to help us understand the problem?

ELISP> (url-expand-file-name "test" "http://www.gnu.org/")
"http://www.gnu.org/c:/test"
ELISP> (url-expand-file-name "test" "http://www.gnu.org")
"http://www.gnu.org/c:/emacs/lisp/url/test"
ELISP> (url-expand-file-name "/test" "http://www.gnu.org/")
"http://www.gnu.org/test"
ELISP> (url-expand-file-name "/test" "http://www.gnu.org")
"http://www.gnu.org/test"


    Juanma

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