[vlc-devel] "file://localhost/" handling in input.c on win32

[Kaarlo Räihä]

2011/8/22 Michael A. Puls II <shadow2531 at gmail.com>

> If Opera passes a file URI to vlc like this:
>
> vlc.exe file://localhost/test.mp3
>
> , vlc reports:
>
> File reading failed:
> VLC could not open the file "\\localhost\c:\test.mp3".
> Your input can't be opened:
> VLC is unable to open the MRL 'file://localhost/c:/test.mp3'**. Check the
> log for details.
>
>
Does file:///localhost/test.mp3 work better?


>
> In src/input/input.c, there's the following code for handling
> "file://localhost/", but it looks like it's not defined for Win32.
>
> ----------
>      /* FIXME: file:// handling plugins do not support URIs properly...
>       * So we pre-decode the URI to a path for them. Note that we do not do
> it
>       * for non-standard VLC-specific schemes. */
>      if( !strcmp( psz_access, "file" ) )
>      {
>          if( psz_path[0] != '/' )
> #ifndef WIN32
>          {   /* host specified -> only localhost is supported */
>              static const size_t i_localhost = sizeof("localhost")-1;
>              if( strncmp( psz_path, "localhost/", i_localhost + 1) != 0 )
>              {
>                  msg_Err( p_input, "cannot open remote file `%s://%s'",
>                           psz_access, psz_path );
>                  msg_Info( p_input, "Did you mean `%s:///%s'?",
>                            psz_access, psz_path );
>                  goto error;
>              }
>              psz_path += i_localhost;
>          }
> #else
>          {
>              /* XXX: very very ugly. Always true for valid URIs though. */
>              if( (psz_path - psz_dup) >= 2 && psz_path[-2] && psz_path[-1]
> )
>              {
>                  *(--psz_path) = '\\';
>                  *(--psz_path) = '\\';
>              }
>          }
>          else
>              /* Strip leading slash in front of the drive letter */
>              psz_path++;
> #endif
>          /* Then URI-decode the path. */
>          decode_URI( psz_path );
> #if (DIR_SEP_CHAR != '/')
>          /* Turn slashes into anti-slashes */
>          for( char *s = strchr( psz_path, '/' ); s; s = strchr( s + 1, '/'
> ) )
>              *s = DIR_SEP_CHAR;
> #endif
>      }
> ----------
>
> --
> Michael
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