On 23/01/2024 19:30, Greg Wooledge wrote:
Also from the "weird results" category: if I mangle the URL by using
two slashes instead of three, Chrome appears to treat that as a
relative pathname, attempts to open usr/share/whatever instead of
/usr/share/whatever, fails, and gives me an error page.
Formally with 2 slashes it might be treated file://hostname/path
https://www.freedesktop.org/wiki/Specifications/file-uri-spec/
https://www.rfc-editor.org/rfc/rfc1738#section-3.10
Qt (unrelated to chromium) might do some funny things with the component
after 2 slashes for arbitrary protocols, e.g. to downcase it.