[vfs] Double slash in ftp url

["Jeffrey D. Brekke" <jb...@wi.rr.com>]

We are attempting to use some of vfs for uniform access to our servers. 
  Some of our FTP servers are VMS based and in certain situations need 
to have an extra / passed with the directory to indicate that there is a 
device present in the path:

ftp://somevms.host.com/%2fsys$common/lib/text.file

VFS seems to be aggressively removing any leading slashes in these cases 
and I can't seem to see a clear way to get this to work.  Is there a way 
to configure the extra slash to remain in the url so

//sys$common/lib is used for the path in our ftp url's?

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Re: [vfs] Double slash in ftp url

[Mario Ivankovits <ma...@ops.co.at>]

Hi Jeffrey!
> VFS seems to be aggressively removing any leading slashes in these
> cases and I can't seem to see a clear way to get this to work.  Is
> there a way to configure the extra slash to remain in the url so
>
> //sys$common/lib is used for the path in our ftp url's?
Yes, it behaves like Javas java.io.File
System.err.println(new File("//path/to/device"));
will result in
/path/to/device

Unhappily I see no way to archive this without hacking the VFS core.
But now that I know that this requirement exists I'll think about it.

Ciao,
Mario


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