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

[Lars Ingebrigtsen]

Augusto Stoffel <arstoffel@gmail.com> writes:

> I've come across issues with file URLs in Windows before, and the
> problem was that
>
>   (url-filename (url-generic-parse-url "file:///C:/some/file"))
>
> returns "/C:/some/file", with an extra slash at the beginning.

That's the correct result.  The URL should probably be
"file://C:/some/file" instead.

I.e., everything after the first two slashes is the path on the local
machine.