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Eww in Emacs 24.4 refuses to open local files

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To: Ivan Shmakov <ivan <at> siamics.net>
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Subject: bug#19472: closed (Eww in Emacs 24.4 refuses to open local files)
Date: Thu, 01 Jan 2015 11:15:03 +0000

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From: "Kelly Dean" <kelly <at> prtime.org>
To: bug-gnu-emacs <at> gnu.org
Subject: Eww in Emacs 24.4 refuses to open local files
Date: Tue, 30 Dec 2014 09:56:02 +0000

M-x eww /home/test/test.html → fail
M-x eww file://home/test/test.html → fail
M-x eww file:///home/test/test.html → fail
(eww-open-file "/home/test/test.html") → fail
(eww-open-file "file://home/test/test.html") → fail
(eww-open-file "file:///home/test/test.html") → fail
(eat-flaming-death) → fail

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From: Ivan Shmakov <ivan <at> siamics.net>
To: 19472-done <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#19472: Eww in Emacs 24.4 refuses to open local files 
Date: Thu, 01 Jan 2015 11:12:20 +0000

Tags: notabug

>>>>> Kelly Dean <kelly <at> prtime.org> writes:
>>>>> Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen wrote:

 >> Works for me on the Emacs 24 branch:

 >> `M-x eww RET file:///tmp/cert.html RET'

 > I get the error ⌜This function requires Emacs to be compiled with
 > libxml2⌝.

 > IOW, I can't read.

 > In my defense, ⌜/home/test/test.html⌝ produced the error ⌜/80 Name or
 > service not known⌝,

	This could probably be improved, – either the error message, or
	the treatment of URIs which look like (absolute?) filenames.

 > and ⌜file://home/test/test.html⌝ produced an FTP buffer with the
 > error ⌜home: No address associated with hostname⌝,

	Indeed, a file://home/ URI means “get files from the host named
	‘home’.”  Cf.: file:/home/, which means “a directory named
	/home/ on the local filesystem.”

 > so by the time I tried ⌜file:///home/test/test.html⌝ and the debugger
 > popped up yet again, I assumed the error was just another complaint
 > about my syntax.

 > Sorry for the mistaken bug report.

	ACK, closing.

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