Re: browse-url and URL handlers (MS-Windows)

[Lars Ingebrigtsen <larsi@gnus.org>]

Lars Ingebrigtsen <larsi@gnus.org> writes:

> Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org> writes:
>
>>> The URL should probably be "file://C:/some/file" instead.
>>
>> No, on Windows the file:// URLs have 3 slashes.  See
>>
>>   https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File_URI_scheme#Windows
>
> Ah, right.  In any case, the result from url-parse is correct, as far as
> I can see -- otherwise you won't be getting back the original URL with 

I was right the first time around:

https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/html/rfc8089

Everything after the first two slashes is the local-part, so the
local-part of "file:///C:/some/file" is "/C:/some/file", which the URL
library does correctly.

But it's up to the local host to interpret the local part, and
apparently the conventions on Windows is to do further processing on the
"/C:/some/file" part of the URL to end up at "C:/some/file", but that
has to be done on a much higher level.