Full_Name: Howard Chu Version: 2.4 OS: Win32 URL: ftp://ftp.openldap.org/incoming/ Submission from: (NULL) (78.155.231.14) Submitted by: hyc

file URLs with absolute paths are parsed incorrectly on Windows. The current code expects an absolute path in Unix form: file:///etc/ldap.conf

In our test suites we just concatenate "file://" with an absolute path.

On Windowsn ababsolute path starts with a drive letter and a colon, so our test suite doing simple concatenation uses file://C:/some/thing

This is actually invalid; the proper form would be file:///C:/some/thing

but the current parser won't do the right thing for either form.

It MUST be fixed to accept the latter form with 3 slashes. I'm inclined to also accept the form with 2 slashes, to avoid hacking up our test suite to handle this case.