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30.1; url-generic-parse-url cannot parse Windows file paths

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From: Sebastián Monía <sebastian <at> sebasmonia.com>
To: Morgan Willcock <morgan <at> ice9.digital>
Cc: 76982 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#76982: 30.1; url-generic-parse-url cannot parse Windows file paths
Date: Wed, 12 Mar 2025 15:23:08 -0400

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Morgan Willcock <morgan <at> ice9.digital> writes:

>   (url-filename (url-generic-parse-url "file:///c:/windows"))
>   => "/c:/windows"
>
>   (url-filename (url-generic-parse-url "c:/windows"))
>   => "/windows"
>
> This is relevant in functions such as
> mml-expand-html-into-multipart-related, where there is a check that the
> file exists:
>
>   (when (and (null (url-type parsed))
>              (not (zerop (length (url-filename parsed))))
>              (file-exists-p (url-filename parsed)))
>     ...)
>
> An example of a real world problem is being unable to reliably send HTML
> mail when using Windows:
>
> https://github.com/jeremy-compostella/org-msg/issues/122

Attached a potential patch.

[0001-url-parse.el-Parsing-exceptions-for-Windows-paths-bu.patch (text/x-patch, attachment)]

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-- 
Sebastián Monía
https://site.sebasmonia.com/

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