Comment 7 for bug 325160

I apologize if you got a bad "tone" from my ascii text; tragically ascii is devoid of any extra cues other than the words and no negatiive tone was intended.

Regarding bug hunting, I *had* hunted for the same sort of bugs. I chased down a similar bug earlier in gnumeric a year or two ago. The problem there was that the colon was causing the url identifier to believe that the file is a url of "<pathuptocolon>:<stuffaftercolon".

The same is the case here. forcing a file:// url works regarless of colon. The bug is triggered on colon, and that's what I searched for.

Now I'll go post most of this on the other bug.