On 20.12.2016 at 07:58, Jesse Schalken wrote: > fopen() supports being passed a URL for use with other "stream wrappers" > besides the local file system. > > If I have a local file path that happens to look like a URL (for example, a > file called "data:foo"), what is the correct escaping or manipulation that > I have to do so that fopen() doesn't consider it a URL and it gets passed > verbatim to fopen() in C? Use an absolute path, or at least some qualification, such as `./data:foo`. That is sufficient to tell PHP that you're not trying to access a data URL. Whether it works, depends on the filesystem (doesn't work on NTFS for instance, where colon is a reserved character). -- Christoph M. Becker -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php