bug#5362: 23.1.91; browse-url-of-dired-file vs. files::with::colons

[Eli Zaretskii]

> From: Lars Ingebrigtsen <larsi@gnus.org>
> Date: Fri, 25 Dec 2015 23:15:08 +0100
> Cc: 5362@debbugs.gnu.org
> 
> (browse-url-file-url "/tmp/WWW::Facebook::API.html")
> => "ftp://tmp/WWW/:Facebook::API.html";
> 
> Which is wrong.
> 
> I don't quite understand why it does all this?  Why doesn't it just
> prepend "file://" to the file name?

See the doc string of browse-url-filename-alist: it's for ange-ftp
support.  It aims at transparently supporting file names like
/anonym@bs2000.anywhere.com:/:X:/IMPORTANT.TEXT.ON.BS2000.  Now you
tell me how should browse-url distinguish that from the file name the
OP shows in this bug report?

> Ideas?

Since browse-url-of-dired-file knows it is operating on a local file,
it could simply bind browse-url-filename-alist to some value (nil?)
that would disable the offending translations.  Would that work?