Re: [Vimprobable-users] Improve handling of file parameters

[Hannes S. <ha...@yl...>]

Hi!

Morgan Howe <mt...@gm...> wrote:
> On Tue, Feb 26, 2013 at 2:49 AM, Hannes Schüller <ha...@yl...>
> wrote:
> > Morgan Howe <mt...@gm...> wrote:
> > > 1) Check if it's a search engine
> > > 2) If not a search engine, look for "://", if found, trust the
> > > user. 3) Else, check if it's a file and if so, build the file://
> > > URI 4) Else, check (again) if it's a search engine
> > > 5) Else, prefix with "http://" and attempt to open.
> > >
> > > Due to the order of the evaluation, the issue you mentioned
> > > originally should not be a problem.
> >
> > Actually, this is exactly the main issue I tried explaining
> > initially: the policy change to give precedence to local files over
> > URLs.
> 
> So is this acceptable to be merged then? The only conflict case
> remaining is a local file, in the current directory, with the exact
> same name as the domain you'd potentially like to visit. In such
> case, 'vp2 http://www.example.com' rather than 'vp2 www.example.com'
> is an easy and obvious workaround. 

For me, the question which is still open is whether this patch also
fixes the issue of

vimprobable2 ./index.htm

which some people seem to experience in the current stable version. I
cannot test it since I cannot reproduce the original issue. If it is
fixed, is it because of the use of realpath or due to the stat call?

Hannes