From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
To: Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen <larsi@gnus.org>
Cc: 17417@debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#17417: 24.3.90; EWW on MS-Windows tries to connect imaginary FTP server when viewing "file://" URLs
Date: Thu, 13 Nov 2014 19:29:08 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <831tp7ko0r.fsf@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <m3y4rfdogi.fsf@stories.gnus.org>
> From: Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen <larsi@gnus.org>
> Cc: 17417@debbugs.gnu.org
> Date: Thu, 13 Nov 2014 18:01:33 +0100
>
> Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org> writes:
>
> > Then visit the file in Emacs's eww like this:
> >
> > emacs -Q
> > M-x eww RET file:///D:/foo/bar/Unicode Standard.html RET
> >
> > The page is displayed, but Emacs also says
> >
> > Opening FTP connection to d...
> >
> > Also, a buffer named *ftp anonymous@d* pops up showing this:
> >
> > Invalid help command foo.
> > open d
> > Unknown host d.
>
> That does sound rather, er, non-optimal.
>
> > This does not happen when visiting the same page via http://. I suspect
> > that the "D:" part of the URL fools eww or some function it calls to
> > perceive the URL as an FTP address, or something.
>
> But unfortunately, I have no idea what might be causing this.
> eww is supposedly just passing the URL along to `url-retrieve'.
>
> Does
>
> (url-retrieve "file:///D:/foo/bar/Unicode Standard.html" 'ignore)
>
> display the same failure mode?
No. But then I can no longer reproduce the original problem, either.
So I guess this was fixed indirectly somehow.
Thanks.
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2014-05-06 7:55 bug#17417: 24.3.90; EWW on MS-Windows tries to connect imaginary FTP server when viewing "file://" URLs Eli Zaretskii
2014-11-13 17:01 ` Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen
2014-11-13 17:29 ` Eli Zaretskii [this message]
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