Translation of \\foo\bar links into smb://foo/bar links

[Jason Keirstead]

Where would I look for the code that handles default consatruction of URLs in 
kurl.cpp? 

Namely, I am looking for the code that would turn a URL like this:

 \\Server\Share

into this:
 
 file://Server\Share

I know that it doesn't know what it is so it is defaulting to file, but I 
hoped I could change the default for URLs that start with \\ to be smb://.
This would make KDE much more compatible in a Windows-centric office, where 
people often send emails with links to SMB shares in them.

I tried finding the right code, and ended up with the patch below, but it does 
not seem to suffice. I think I need to do something else in the paseURL 
function, but I really got lost in there. Any pointers?



Index: kurl.cpp
===================================================================
RCS file: /home/kde/kdelibs/kdecore/kurl.cpp,v
retrieving revision 1.285
diff -u -p -b -w -B -r1.285 kurl.cpp
--- kurl.cpp    3 Dec 2004 13:18:56 -0000       1.285
+++ kurl.cpp    17 Jan 2005 19:42:42 -0000
@@ -654,6 +654,14 @@ void KURL::parse( const QString& _url, i
        parseURL( _url, encoding_hint );
        return;
     }
+    else if( _url.startsWith("\\\\") )
+    {
+       m_iUriMode = URL;
+       m_strProtocol = "smb";
+       parseURL( _url, encoding_hint );
+       return;
+    }
+
     if ( !isalpha( (int)x ) )
        goto NodeErr;


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