On Fri, 4 Nov 2016, Ray Satiro via curl-library wrote:

> I'm not sure that this is a bug, it seems more correct than it was before.
> However if for backwards compatibility we wanted to skip that for file it
> should be simple
>
> - if(path[0] != '/') {
> + if(path[0] != '/' && !strcasecompare(protop, "file")) {

Changing that behavior was not intended with this commit so I figure it is
worth getting the former treatment back. I'd be much happier if we could write
up a test case for this as well so we can catch this the next time.

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  / daniel.haxx.se
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