[debbugs-tracker] bug#19472: closed (Eww in Emacs 24.4 refuses to open local files)

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> Eww in Emacs 24.4 refuses to open local files
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> Tue, 30 Dec 2014 09:56:02 +0000
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> M-x eww /home/test/test.html → fail
> M-x eww file://home/test/test.html → fail
> M-x eww file:///home/test/test.html → fail
> (eww-open-file "/home/test/test.html") → fail
> (eww-open-file "file://home/test/test.html") → fail
> (eww-open-file "file:///home/test/test.html") → fail
> (eat-flaming-death) → fail
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> Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/24.3 (gnu/linux)
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> >>>>> Kelly Dean <address@hidden> writes:
> >>>>> Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen wrote:
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>  >> Works for me on the Emacs 24 branch:
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>  >> `M-x eww RET file:///tmp/cert.html RET'
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>  > I get the error ⌜This function requires Emacs to be compiled with
>  > libxml2⌝.
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>  > IOW, I can't read.
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>  > In my defense, ⌜/home/test/test.html⌝ produced the error ⌜/80 Name or
>  > service not known⌝,
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>         This could probably be improved, – either the error message, or
>         the treatment of URIs which look like (absolute?) filenames.
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>  > and ⌜file://home/test/test.html⌝ produced an FTP buffer with the
>  > error ⌜home: No address associated with hostname⌝,
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>         Indeed, a file://home/ URI means “get files from the host named
>         ‘home’.”  Cf.: file:/home/, which means “a directory named
>         /home/ on the local filesystem.”
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>  > so by the time I tried ⌜file:///home/test/test.html⌝ and the debugger
>  > popped up yet again, I assumed the error was just another complaint
>  > about my syntax.
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>  > Sorry for the mistaken bug report.
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>         ACK, closing.
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