RE: [Bug-wget] wget-1.12.1-devel: 'Unsupported scheme' and windows pathnames

[Tony Lewis]

Ray Satiro wrote:

> On windows this is valid:
> C:\Users\Internet\Desktop>if exist c://file.txt echo hi
> hi

On windows this is valid too:
if exist c://////////////file.txt echo hi
hi

but neither is the canonical way of expressing the location of a file in the
root directory of the C drive.

Why would you want to modify retrieve_from_file() to recognize broken ways
of expressing a path?