Re: [O] [BUG] Cannot export a raw link

[Achim Gratz]

Nicolas Goaziou writes:
> With latest patch and following Org buffer
>
>   file:test.org
>   file:/test.org
>   file:///test.org
>
> I get (HTML export)
>
>   <a href="test.html">test.html</a>
>   <a href="file:///test.html">file:///test.html</a>
>   <a href="file:///test.html">file:///test.html</a>
>
> So, it looks good so far.

groff has this snippet:

--8<---------------cut here---------------start------------->8---
                  (if (file-name-absolute-p raw-path)
                      (concat "file://" (expand-file-name raw-path))
                    (concat "file://" raw-path)))
--8<---------------cut here---------------end--------------->8---

which unconditionally adds an authority if I read it correctly.

> Unfortunately, it fails with a non-empty authority. E.g.,
>
>   file://hostname/test.org
>
> becomes
>
>   <a href="hostname/test.html">test.html</a>
>
> So it is not satisfactory.

Right, I didn't read as far into the patch.

> One possibility is to store somewhere in the parsed link that the URI
> provided the "//" part, and, if so, re-introduce it unconditionally when
> building back the link.

Well, there's the option of correctly parsing into scheme, authority,
path, query and fragment...  But that is probably not going into 8.2.6
in any case.

https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc3986

> Another one is to drop the whole thing, return to previous state, and
> implement ad-hoc rules to fix "file:", which is probably the only scheme
> introducing problems.

I forgot what the previous state was, but trying to fix file: URIs
without correctly parsing them sounds like a losing proposition.


Regards,
Achim.
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