From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.emacs.gnus.general/74104 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Ted Zlatanov Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel,gmane.emacs.gnus.general Subject: Re: URL + efs confusion Date: Mon, 15 Nov 2010 14:23:54 -0600 Organization: =?utf-8?B?0KLQtdC+0LTQvtGAINCX0LvQsNGC0LDQvdC+0LI=?= @ Cienfuegos Message-ID: <87bp5qbajp.fsf@lifelogs.com> References: NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain X-Trace: dough.gmane.org 1289854822 2281 80.91.229.12 (15 Nov 2010 21:00:22 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 15 Nov 2010 21:00:22 +0000 (UTC) Cc: ding@gnus.org To: emacs-devel@gnu.org Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Mon Nov 15 22:00:18 2010 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1PI69y-0004pi-5O for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Mon, 15 Nov 2010 22:00:18 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:52073 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1PI69x-0003HZ-G1 for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Mon, 15 Nov 2010 16:00:17 -0500 Original-Received: from [140.186.70.92] (port=54540 helo=eggs.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1PI62m-0005Ux-EY for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 15 Nov 2010 15:53:14 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1PI5b5-00023L-RM for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 15 Nov 2010 15:24:20 -0500 Original-Received: from lo.gmane.org ([80.91.229.12]:50155) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1PI5b5-00023C-J8 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 15 Nov 2010 15:24:15 -0500 Original-Received: from list by lo.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1PI5b0-0002Sm-QO for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 15 Nov 2010 21:24:10 +0100 Original-Received: from 38.98.147.130 ([38.98.147.130]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Mon, 15 Nov 2010 21:24:10 +0100 Original-Received: from tzz by 38.98.147.130 with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Mon, 15 Nov 2010 21:24:10 +0100 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Original-Lines: 23 Original-X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: 38.98.147.130 X-Face: bd.DQ~'29fIs`T_%O%C\g%6jW)yi[zuz6; d4V0`@y-~$#3P_Ng{@m+e4o<4P'#(_GJQ%TT= D}[Ep*b!\e,fBZ'j_+#"Ps?s2!4H2-Y"sx" User-Agent: Gnus/5.110011 (No Gnus v0.11) Emacs/24.0.50 (gnu/linux) Cancel-Lock: sha1:KQAQ2BqNsGRfHGBL2+rcW6DYyC0= X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.6 (newer, 3) X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:132652 gmane.emacs.gnus.general:74104 Archived-At: On Mon, 15 Nov 2010 21:06:37 +0100 Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen wrote: LMI> Sometimes people put local URLs into their RSS feeds, like LMI> 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