Re: [O] why prepend "file://" to abs paths in html output?

[Nicolas Goaziou]

Hello,

Matt Price <address@hidden> writes:

> in org-html-link local links of the form
>
> "/some/path/to/file"
>
> are rewritten as
>
> "file:///some/path/to/file".
>
> This makes it difficult to write root-relative URL's in the way that one
> might expect to be able to (so that export produces links like
>
> <img src="/static/images/unicorn.jpg"/>
>
> Is this really the most desirable behaviour? In html export, at least, I
> would think most users would want to allow links of the kind I described.
> But this seems like a conscious design decision; cf. these lines from
> org-html-link:
>
>         ;; If file path is absolute, prepend it with protocol
>         ;; component - "file://".
>         (cond
>          ((file-name-absolute-p raw-path)
>           (setq raw-path (org-export-file-uri raw-path)))
>          ((and home use-abs-url)
>           (setq raw-path (concat (file-name-as-directory home) raw-path))))
>
> I'm wondering whether a user oculd at least set a defcustom to control this
> behaviour.

Let me ask this the other way: is there any situation where "file://"
prefix is desirable?

Regards,

-- 
Nicolas Goaziou