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Subject: Re: [cygstart] optional double slash after scheme for file URIs
From: James Nylen <jnylen AT gmail DOT com>
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Chrome and IE cope with these variants just fine:

file:C:/Projects
file:/C:/Projects
file://C:/Projects
file:///C:/Projects
file:////C:/Projects

IE doesn't like more than 4 slashes, but Chrome doesn't mind.

Your patch appears to only cover 0 or 2 slashes.  How about something
like this instead of checking for "//":

// remove all slashes except the last one
while (strncmp(aPath, "//", 2) == 0) aPath++;

// path /C:/Projects is invalid, want C:/Projects instead
if (*aPath == '/' && *(aPath + 2) == ':') aPath++;

On Tue, Aug 5, 2014 at 1:02 PM, Juan Gabriel Ricart
<juangabriel DOT ricart AT gmail DOT com> wrote:
> Greetings,
>
> Below you may find a trivial patch for the cygstart program (a part of
> the cygutils package) for your review:
>
> --- cygstart.c.old      2014-08-05 15:37:49.021062800 +0000
> +++ cygstart.c.new      2014-08-05 14:20:54.318820400 +0000
> @@ -591,8 +591,12 @@
>    const wchar_t *pWinDir = NULL;
>    int rc = 0;
>
> -  if (strncmp (aPath, "file://", 7) == 0)
> -    aPath += 7;
> +  if (strncmp (aPath, "file:", 5) == 0)
> +    {
> +      aPath += 5;
> +      if (strncmp (aPath, "//", 2) == 0)
> +       aPath += 2;
> +    }
>  #ifdef __CYGWIN__
>    /* Convert file path from POSIX to Windows, unless it looks like a URL */
>    if (!strstr (aPath, "://") && strncmp (aPath, "mailto:", 7) != 0)
>
> It makes the double slash after the scheme optional for file URIs. So
> this error would not happen:
>
> $ cygstart file:/home/ricartj/page.htm
> Unable to start 'file:\home\ricartj\page.htm: The specified file was not found.
>
> The reasons for this are enumerated below:
>
> 1. Although RFC 1738 explicitly documents the double slash as
>  mandatory for file URIs (see Section 5), a new working draft is being
>  proposed:
>
>  http://tools.ietf.org/html/draft-kerwin-file-scheme-10
>
>  which makes the double slash optional (see Section 2.2).
>
>  2. Many browsers already cope with file URIs that do not contain the
>  double slash, I personally tested this with Firefox and Internet
>  Explorer. It would be great if cygstart could work like this as well.
>
> Best regards,
>
> --
> Juan Ricart
>
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