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Diffstat (limited to 'lib/url.c')
| -rw-r--r-- | lib/url.c | 12 |
1 files changed, 11 insertions, 1 deletions
@@ -2002,9 +2002,19 @@ static CURLcode CreateConnection(struct SessionHandle *data, * proxy -- and we don't know if we will need to use SSL until we parse the * url ... ************************************************************/ - if((2 == sscanf(data->change.url, "%64[^:]://%[^\n]", + if((2 == sscanf(data->change.url, "%64[^:]:%[^\n]", conn->protostr, conn->path)) && strequal(conn->protostr, "file")) { + if(conn->path[0] == '/' && conn->path[1] == '/') { + /* Allow omitted hostname (e.g. file:/<path>). This is not strictly + * speaking a valid file: URL by RFC 1738, but treating file:/<path> as + * file://localhost/<path> is similar to how other schemes treat missing + * hostnames. See RFC 1808. */ + + /* This cannot be done with strcpy() in a portable manner, since the + memory areas overlap! */ + memmove(conn->path, conn->path + 2, strlen(conn->path + 2)+1); + } /* * we deal with file://<host>/<path> differently since it supports no * hostname other than "localhost" and "127.0.0.1", which is unique among |