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Re: URL + efs confusion
From: |
Ted Zlatanov |
Subject: |
Re: URL + efs confusion |
Date: |
Mon, 15 Nov 2010 14:23:54 -0600 |
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Gnus/5.110011 (No Gnus v0.11) Emacs/24.0.50 (gnu/linux) |
On Mon, 15 Nov 2010 21:06:37 +0100 Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen <address@hidden>
wrote:
LMI> Sometimes people put local URLs into their RSS feeds, like
LMI> <img src="file:/c:/thing/foo">
LMI> This ends up as a url call like this:
LMI> (url-retrieve "file:/c:/thing/foo" #'ignore)
LMI> which ends up prompting me for my ftp password, since c:/thing/foo is
LMI> interpreted as an efs file name.
LMI> This seems not very optimal. Could there be situations where that URL
LMI> makes sense to interpret that way? And what about on Windows machines?
LMI> Anybody have any suggestions about on what level this should be fixed?
LMI> Gnus, shr or url? And how? :-)
I think the file: prefix should cause anything following to be
interpreted as a local file. It seems like the URL library is the one
that should open the file literally without any filename handlers.
Ted
- URL + efs confusion, Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen, 2010/11/15
- Re: URL + efs confusion,
Ted Zlatanov <=
- Re: URL + efs confusion, Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen, 2010/11/15
- Re: URL + efs confusion, Michael Albinus, 2010/11/16
- Re: URL + efs confusion, Ted Zlatanov, 2010/11/16
- Re: URL + efs confusion, Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen, 2010/11/16
- Re: URL + efs confusion, Davis Herring, 2010/11/16
- Re: URL + efs confusion, David Kastrup, 2010/11/16
- Re: URL + efs confusion, Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen, 2010/11/16
- Re: URL + efs confusion, Michael Albinus, 2010/11/16