David Byron's fix for file:// URLs with drive letters included.

/* Emulate a connect-then-transfer protocol. We connect to the file here */

CURLcode Curl_file_connect(struct connectdata *conn)

{

  char *actual_path = curl_unescape(conn->path, 0);

  char *real_path = curl_unescape(conn->path, 0);

  struct FILE *file;

  int fd;

#if defined(WIN32) || defined(__EMX__)

  int i;

  char *actual_path;

#endif

  file = (struct FILE *)malloc(sizeof(struct FILE));

  conn->proto.file = file;

#if defined(WIN32) || defined(__EMX__)

  /* If the first character is a slash, and there's

     something that looks like a drive at the beginning of

     the path, skip the slash.  If we remove the initial

     slash in all cases, paths without drive letters end up

     relative to the current directory which isn't how

     browsers work.

     Some browsers accept | instead of : as the drive letter

     separator, so we do too.

     On other platforms, we need the slash to indicate an

     absolute pathname.  On Windows, absolute paths start

     with a drive letter.

  */

  actual_path = real_path;

  if (*actual_path == '/' &&

      (actual_path[2] == ':' || actual_path[2] == '|'))

  {

    actual_path[2] = ':';

    actual_path++;

  }

  /* change path separators from '/' to '\\' for Windows and OS/2 */

  for (i=0; actual_path[i] != '\0'; ++i)

    if (actual_path[i] == '/')

  fd = open(actual_path, O_RDONLY | O_BINARY);	/* no CR/LF translation! */

#else

  fd = open(actual_path, O_RDONLY);

  fd = open(real_path, O_RDONLY);

#endif

  free(actual_path);

  free(real_path);

  if(fd == -1) {

    failf(conn->data, "Couldn't open file %s", conn->path);