lib.Uri: Treat paths starting with ~" specially #48
2026-07-22
lib.Uri: Treat paths starting with "~" specially
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An Uri instance constructed from "~/some/path" returns "file://~/some/path" as the .full property, i.e. with the "~" in the authority part. That's not accurate and doesn't make the intended sense in an URL context, see RFC 8089: Common UNIX shells such as the Bourne-Again SHell (bash) and Z SHell (zsh) provide a function known as "tilde expansion" [Bash-Tilde] or "filename expansion" [Zsh-Tilde], where a path that begins with a tilde character "~" can be expanded out to a special directory name. No such facility exists using the file URI scheme; a tilde in a file URI is always just a tilde. The "fix" introduced by this commit makes .full return the path without file:// prepended. That's conservative. It could also chose to expand the tilde, which is arguably cleaner. To be introduced by a later change after this commit has seen more coverage. Signed-off-by: Jan Lindemann <jan@janware.com>