GNU bug report logs - #1020
url-expand-file-name expands wrongly on Windows

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Message #19 received at 1020-done <at> emacsbugs.donarmstrong.com (full text, mbox):

From: Jason Rumney <jasonr <at> gnu.org>
To: Juanma Barranquero <lekktu <at> gmail.com>,
        1020-done <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Cc: Klaus Straubinger <KSNetz <at> usenet.arcornews.de>
Subject: Re: bug#1020: url-default-expander expands wrongly on Windows
Date: Sat, 21 Feb 2009 16:00:03 +0800

Juanma Barranquero wrote:
>>> the function url-default-expander calls expand-file-name which
>>> inserts interesting but wrong drive letters into URLs when called
>>> on Windows.
>>>       
> 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"
>   

I have changed url-default-expand to use concat instead of 
expand-file-name to avoid this bug.

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