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

[Lars Ingebrigtsen]

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 

(url-recreate-url (url-generic-parse-url "file:///C:/some/file"))
=> "file:///C:/some/file"

which should (usually) be the case.