URI.makeAbsoluteURI does not handle local windows filepaths properly

[darronschall]

Originally filed by gae.local.test on 2010-07-12T05:40:26

_uri1 = new URI("example.txt");
_url2 = new URI("file://C:/path/to/aDifferentExample.txt");
_uri1.makeAbsoluteURI(_url2 ).toString() returns the string "file://c/path/toexample.txt"

expected output --> string "file://c:/path/to/toexample.txt" (notice the colon in c:/)

I copy and pasted trace output and then shortened for readability. The problem is that the method is removing the colon after the drive identifier.

I am using the current revision at revision 118 according to tortoise svn

[darronschall]

Updated by gae.local.test on 2010-07-12T05:41:54

I made copy and paste errors. The only thing that is wrong with the string it prints out is the missing colon after the drive letter. I can't edit my post to fix it.

[LexLythius]

Please note that
file://c:/path/to/toexample.txt
is actually a broken URI. It should encode to
file:///c:/path/to/toexample.txt
which equates to
file://localhost/c:/path/to/toexample.txt