Re: Path to nmap.xsl for win32

[David Fifield <david () bamsoftware com>]

On Thu, Sep 25, 2008 at 03:12:56AM +0100, jah wrote:
> On 24/09/2008 21:31, David Fifield wrote:
> > On Wed, Sep 24, 2008 at 08:58:02PM +0100, jah wrote:
> > that's right.
> According to [1] it should be
>
> file:///C:/Program Files/Nmap/nmap.xsl
>
> "In general, a file path is converted to a URI by adding the scheme
> identifier file:, then three forward slashes (representing an empty
> authority or host segment), then the path with all backslashes converted
> to forward slashes. "
>
> One thing I found is that if nmap_fetchfile fails on win32 then both
> firefox and IE will display the xml file if the stylesheet is in the
> same directory as long as file:/// is not prepended to the stylesheet
> filename.  However, if file:/// is prepended and the stylesheet is in
> the root of the current drive, IE will display the xml, but Firefox will
> not.
>
> I've attached a patch which belies my rudimentary C/C++, but does the
> trick.  If fetchfile fails on windows then file:/// is not prepended to
> the filename.

I committed something similar to your patch.

David Fifield

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