GNU bug report logs - #6339
url-filename => "/c:/some/file.txt"

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Package: emacs;

Reported by: Lennart Borgman <lennart.borgman <at> gmail.com>

Date: Thu, 3 Jun 2010 02:40:02 UTC

Severity: normal

Done: Chong Yidong <cyd <at> gnu.org>

Bug is archived. No further changes may be made.

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From: Juanma Barranquero <lekktu <at> gmail.com>
To: Andreas Schwab <schwab <at> linux-m68k.org>
Cc: Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen <larsi <at> gnus.org>, 6339 <at> debbugs.gnu.org, Jason Rumney <jasonr <at> gnu.org>
Subject: bug#6339: url-filename => "/c:/some/file.txt"
Date: Sat, 24 Sep 2011 23:56:33 +0200

On Sat, Sep 24, 2011 at 13:53, Andreas Schwab <schwab <at> linux-m68k.org> wrote:

> In an ftp URL an absolute fpath needs to be written with a leading
> escaped slash (%2F).  RFCs 4722 and 5022 consistently use four leading
> slashes for an absolute file name.  OTOH there are a few occurrences of
> file URLs denoting absolute paths with only three slashes in other RFCs.

I think we're in agreement: there are several ways to interpret the
PATH part, but in all cases, it does not include the separator slash.

    Juanma
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