From f4a9ac25e9cf27914ad4235d0745980d56212c1d Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Jack Jansen <jack.jansen@cwi.nl>
Date: Tue, 25 Feb 2003 13:34:22 +0000
Subject: [PATCH] Workaround for bug #644243 (which is actually an Apple bug, I
 think): URLs of the form file:/path/to/file don't work whereas
 file:///path/to/file works fine. We convert the former to the latter.

---
 Lib/plat-mac/ic.py | 4 ++++
 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+)

diff --git a/Lib/plat-mac/ic.py b/Lib/plat-mac/ic.py
index 91e14f3ac25..33091ff03f3 100644
--- a/Lib/plat-mac/ic.py
+++ b/Lib/plat-mac/ic.py
@@ -195,6 +195,10 @@ class IC:
 		self.ic.ICSetPref(key, ICattr_no_change, value)
 		
 	def launchurl(self, url, hint=""):
+		# Work around a bug in ICLaunchURL: file:/foo does
+		# not work but file:///foo does.
+		if url[:6] == 'file:/' and url[6] != '/':
+			url = 'file:///' + url[6:]
 		self.ic.ICLaunchURL(hint, url, 0, len(url))
 		
 	def parseurl(self, data, start=None, end=None, hint=""):