[debbugs-tracker] bug#18310: closed (24.3.93; relative links don't work in eww and Windows 7)

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> 24.3.93; relative links don't work in eww and Windows 7
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> Thu, 21 Aug 2014 11:33:32 +0100
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> Hi maintainers,
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> On Windows 7:
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>     emacs -Q
>     M-x eww RET
>     http://www.lispworks.com/documentation/HyperSpec/Front/index.htm RET
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> Try to follow any of the relative links on the page, they point to
> something strange like "www.lispworks.comz" (note the final "z") which
> basically breaks all navigation.
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> The `shr-url' property at point shows
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>     http://www.lispworks.comz:/documentation/HyperSpec/Front/StartPts.htm
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> And everything indicates this is a consequence of a previous bug fix of
> mine for bug#17217 [1], which does not manifest itself in my Linux
> box. I'm pretty sure it also did not manifest itself on my old Windows
> XP box.
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> In that fix, I used the function `expand-file-name' in `shr-expand-url'
> to compute the expanded URL for "totally relative" case of hrefs like
> "../something".
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> This new bug seems to be caused by `expand-file-name' insisting on
> producing a valid windows pathname (with drive letter), even though it
> was passed the second argument DEFAULT-DIRECTORY.
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> That is, on my Windows 7 system:
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>    (expand-file-name "../bla" "/something/else")
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>    "z:/something/bla"
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> Whereas I intented it to expand to "/something/bla".
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> My HOME variable is set to at "z:", but unsetting it does not help
> either. I don't have time right now to look at the C-code for
> `expand-file-name'.
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> João
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> [1]: http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-gnu-emacs/2014-04/msg00266.html
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> In GNU Emacs 24.3.93.1 (i686-pc-mingw32)
>  of 2014-08-15 on LEG570
> Windowing system distributor `Microsoft Corp.', version 6.1.7601
> Configured using:
>  `configure --enable-checking 'CFLAGS=-O0 -g3' CPPFLAGS=-DGLYPH_DEBUG=1'
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> Important settings:
>   value of $LC_CTYPE: UTF-8
>   value of $LANG: C.UTF-8
>   locale-coding-system: cp1252
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> Re: bug#18310: 24.3.93; relative links don't work in eww and Windows 7
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> Wed, 27 Aug 2014 01:05:27 -0400
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> Gnus (www.gnus.org), GNU Emacs (www.gnu.org/software/emacs/)
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> Version: 24.3.94
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> Fine; applied.
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