bug#1020: marked as done (url-expand-file-name expands wrongly on Windows)

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and subject line Re: bug#1020: url-default-expander expands wrongly on Windows
has caused the Emacs bug report #1020,
regarding url-expand-file-name expands wrongly on Windows
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> url-expand-file-name expands wrongly on Windows
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> Wed, 24 Sep 2008 14:19:34 +0200 ()
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> In GNU Emacs 22.3.1 (i386-mingw-nt5.1.2600)
>  of 2008-09-06 on SOFT-MJASON
> Windowing system distributor `Microsoft Corp.', version 5.1.2600
> configured using `configure --with-gcc (3.4)'
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> the problem described in
> <http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-gnu-emacs/2008-03/msg00123.html>
> still occurs.
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>   (url-expand-file-name "test" ["http" nil nil "www.gnu.org" 80 "/" nil nil t])
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>   --> "http://www.gnu.org/c:/test";;
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>   (url-http-expand-file-name
>    [nil nil nil nil nil "test" nil nil nil]
>    ["http" nil nil "www.gnu.org" 80 "/" nil nil t])
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>   --> "/c:/test"
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> url-http-expand-file-name is an alias for url-default-expander; this
> could be changed.
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> But currently the function url-default-expander calls the function
> expand-file-name while canonicalizing URLs. This is not a good idea on
> Windows because there the drive letter will be inserted.
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> Re: bug#1020: url-default-expander expands wrongly on Windows
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> Date: 
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> Sat, 21 Feb 2009 16:00:03 +0800
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> Juanma Barranquero wrote:
> > > > the function url-default-expander calls expand-file-name which
> > > > inserts interesting but wrong drive letters into URLs when called
> > > > on Windows.
> > > >       
> > ELISP> (url-expand-file-name "test" "http://www.gnu.org/";)
> > "http://www.gnu.org/c:/test";
> > ELISP> (url-expand-file-name "test" "http://www.gnu.org";)
> > "http://www.gnu.org/c:/emacs/lisp/url/test";
> > ELISP> (url-expand-file-name "/test" "http://www.gnu.org/";)
> > "http://www.gnu.org/test";
> > ELISP> (url-expand-file-name "/test" "http://www.gnu.org";)
> > "http://www.gnu.org/test";
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> I have changed url-default-expand to use concat instead of 
> expand-file-name to avoid this bug.
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