[fpc-pascal] fphttpclient get an url with colon

[michael.vancanneyt at wisa.be]

On Fri, 17 Feb 2012, Mattias Gaertner wrote:

> Hi,
>
> When I use TFPHTTPClient to fetch a page with a colon in the file name
> it appends a slash "/". For example:
>
>  Client:=TFPHTTPClient.Create(nil);
>  Response:=TMemoryStream.Create;
>  Client.Get('http://wiki.lazarus.freepascal.org/Image:Acs_demos.jpg',Response);
>
> It fetches "/Image:Acs_demos.jpg/".
>
> The / is appended in ParseURI when extracting the document name. For
> some reason it stops at a colon:
>
>  // now s is 'hier-part' per RFC3986
>  // Extract the document name (nasty...)
>
>  for i := Length(s) downto 1 do
>    if s[i] = '/' then
>    begin
>      ...
>    end else if s[i] = ':' then
>      break
>    else
>      ...
>
> Why?

Probably some misguided attempt at handling file:///c:/something

You can remove that code.

Michael.