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bug#17417: 24.3.90; EWW on MS-Windows tries to connect imaginary FTP ser
From: |
Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen |
Subject: |
bug#17417: 24.3.90; EWW on MS-Windows tries to connect imaginary FTP server when viewing "file://" URLs |
Date: |
Thu, 13 Nov 2014 18:01:33 +0100 |
User-agent: |
Gnus/5.130012 (Ma Gnus v0.12) Emacs/25.0.50 (gnu/linux) |
Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org> writes:
> Then visit the file in Emacs's eww like this:
>
> emacs -Q
> M-x eww RET file:///D:/foo/bar/Unicode Standard.html RET
>
> The page is displayed, but Emacs also says
>
> Opening FTP connection to d...
>
> Also, a buffer named *ftp anonymous@d* pops up showing this:
>
> Invalid help command foo.
> open d
> Unknown host d.
That does sound rather, er, non-optimal.
> This does not happen when visiting the same page via http://. I suspect
> that the "D:" part of the URL fools eww or some function it calls to
> perceive the URL as an FTP address, or something.
But unfortunately, I have no idea what might be causing this.
eww is supposedly just passing the URL along to `url-retrieve'.
Does
(url-retrieve "file:///D:/foo/bar/Unicode Standard.html" 'ignore)
display the same failure mode?
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- bug#17417: 24.3.90; EWW on MS-Windows tries to connect imaginary FTP server when viewing "file://" URLs,
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