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

From: Lennart Borgman <[email-masked]>
Date: Sun, 10 Jan 2010 21:10:28 +0100

On Sun, Jan 10, 2010 at 9:06 PM, Juanma Barranquero <[email-masked]> wrote:
>> 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.

Hm. Are you sure?

> He said that he thinks that
> the RFC assumes that the path does not start with a slash.

Yes.

>> 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.

Please explain. How do you get file:/// on w32?