On Thu, 31 Jul 2008, Chris Young wrote: Actually, what I wrote above isn't entirely accurate. The core simply passes around whatever you pass it, adding or stripping "file://" as appropriate (Yes, two slashes -- the third is assumed to be the start of the path segment, as per the URI spec). On RISC OS, our runtime library performs this conversion transparently. Your alternative would be to implement a platform-specific handler for file: URLs. Then you can do whatever you like. See content/fetchers/fetch_*.c for existing fetch handlers. I think there's also one in beos/, as that has some slightly different requirements, too. Overall, this seems far cleaner that changing NetSurf's core + the underlying fetch library (cURL) to gain support for specific platforms). J.