From: Ted Zlatanov <tzz@lifelogs.com>
To: emacs-devel@gnu.org
Cc: ding@gnus.org
Subject: Re: URL + efs confusion
Date: Mon, 15 Nov 2010 14:23:54 -0600 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87bp5qbajp.fsf@lifelogs.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: m3ipzygxma.fsf@quimbies.gnus.org
On Mon, 15 Nov 2010 21:06:37 +0100 Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen <larsi@gnus.org> wrote:
LMI> Sometimes people put local URLs into their RSS feeds, like
LMI> <img src="file:/c:/thing/foo">
LMI> This ends up as a url call like this:
LMI> (url-retrieve "file:/c:/thing/foo" #'ignore)
LMI> which ends up prompting me for my ftp password, since c:/thing/foo is
LMI> interpreted as an efs file name.
LMI> This seems not very optimal. Could there be situations where that URL
LMI> makes sense to interpret that way? And what about on Windows machines?
LMI> Anybody have any suggestions about on what level this should be fixed?
LMI> Gnus, shr or url? And how? :-)
I think the file: prefix should cause anything following to be
interpreted as a local file. It seems like the URL library is the one
that should open the file literally without any filename handlers.
Ted
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2010-11-15 20:23 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 14+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2010-11-15 20:06 URL + efs confusion Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen
2010-11-15 20:23 ` Ted Zlatanov [this message]
2010-11-15 22:45 ` Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen
2010-11-16 5:48 ` Stefan Monnier
2010-11-16 13:49 ` Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen
2010-11-16 8:36 ` Michael Albinus
2010-11-16 14:24 ` Ted Zlatanov
2010-11-16 14:33 ` Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen
2010-11-16 14:57 ` Davis Herring
2010-11-16 15:00 ` David Kastrup
2010-11-16 15:04 ` Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen
2010-11-16 15:05 ` Michael Albinus
2010-11-16 15:16 ` Ted Zlatanov
2010-11-16 15:26 ` Michael Albinus
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