bug#6717: tramp-dissect-file-name: Not a Tramp file name

[Michael Albinus]

Andreas Schwab <schwab@linux-m68k.org> writes:

> Michael Albinus <michael.albinus@gmx.de> writes:
>
>> --- 435,444 ----
>>      (delete-process url-http-process)))))
>>     (let ((buffer (current-buffer))
>>      (class nil)
>> !    (success nil)
>> !    ;; The filename part of a URL could be in remote file syntax,
>> !    ;; see Bug#6717 for an example.  We disable Tramp, therefore.
>> !    (tramp-mode nil))
>
> IMHO this is the wrong place to fix that.  Instead file-name-directory
> should not be called on the local part in the first place, or at least
> *all* file name handlers should be suppressed around the call.

I thought about that. But I'm not sure, whether we shall disable
jka-compr, for example. What happens, if the URL is something like
http://host.cc/path/file.gz ?

I do not know url*.el sufficiently, that I could decide this ...

> Andreas.

Best regards, Michael.