Subject: bug#5345: Password asked when visiting a file in a lightweight checkout

From: Juanma Barranquero <[email-masked]>
Date: Sun, 10 Jan 2010 21:06:31 +0100

> Reiner whispered that <host> was collapsed to nothing when the url was
> local, ie a local file here.

No, he didn't "whisper" nothing like that. He said that he thinks that
the RFC assumes that the path does not start with a slash.

> There is no way to get
> the second case on w32 if Reiners suggestion for reading is correct
> (and I am not mistaken...)

I think you are.

    Juanma