bug#39349: browse-url-of-dired-file should respect directory symlinks

[Lars Ingebrigtsen]

Andreas Schwab <schwab@linux-m68k.org> writes:

> On Jul 23 2020, Lars Ingebrigtsen wrote:
>
>> Eli, the use case here is that we don't want to chase/resolve symlinks,
>> but we do want to have "/foo/bar/." -> "/foo/bar" and "/foo/bar/.." ->
>> "/foo".
>
> Isn't that what expand-file-name does?

No, it resolves symlinks:

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Convert filename NAME to absolute, and canonicalize it.
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