Trying to figure out how to support file:// urls

[erikh]

CURL_DISABLE_FILE is not set in curl-sys and even with static builds on in features, I can't use file:// urls. I'm not really that familiar with the curl build system so I'm wondering if anyone knows how I can get this functionality? I need it for flexibility within a project.

[guemax]

[...] I can't use file:// urls.

Late to the party, but what do you mean by that? I am using curl-rust with file:// urls and encountered a small issue: assert_eq!(handle.response_code()?, 200); always failed, because I got 0 instead of the expected 200 like I did with https:// urls. Note that the previous call to handle.perform()?; did not fail.)

Turns out, the response code is meaningless for file:// urls, see https://curl.se/libcurl/c/CURLINFO_RESPONSE_CODE.html. The call to libcurl was actually successful and I got the requested file, I just had to remove the check for response code.

Was this also your issue? Hope this helps!