bug#58464: 28.1; browse-url-emacs doesn't work for local files on Windows

[Lars Ingebrigtsen]

Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org> writes:

> No, the misleading message is likely just a symptom of the root
> cause.  The root cause is that the buffer-file-name is set
> incorrectly, and likewise the default-directory.

Well...  have a look at bug#bug#42431, it analyses the problem.  (Which
is that any usage if insert-file-contents that doesn't reference an
actual file on the file system will signal an error, and that's a
mistake, I think?)