Special case the file: protocol

index.js

@@ -33,7 +33,7 @@ var rules = [
   ['#', 'hash'],                        // Extract from the back.
   ['?', 'query'],                       // Extract from the back.
   function sanitize(address) {          // Sanitize what is left of the address
-    return address.replace('\\', '/');
+    return address.replace(/\\/g, '/');
   },
   ['/', 'pathname'],                    // Extract from the back.
   ['@', 'auth', 1],                     // Extract from the front.
@@ -224,7 +224,9 @@ function Url(address, location, parser) {
   // When the authority component is absent the URL starts with a path
   // component.
   //
-  if (!extracted.slashes) instructions[3] = [/(.*)/, 'pathname'];
+  if (!extracted.slashes || url.protocol === 'file:') {
+    instructions[3] = [/(.*)/, 'pathname'];
+  }
 
   for (; i < instructions.length; i++) {
     instruction = instructions[i];
@@ -288,7 +290,10 @@ function Url(address, location, parser) {
   // Default to a / for pathname if none exists. This normalizes the URL
   // to always have a /
   //
-  if (url.pathname.charAt(0) !== '/' && url.hostname) {
+  if (
+      url.pathname.charAt(0) !== '/'
+    && (url.hostname || url.protocol === 'file:')
+  ) {
     url.pathname = '/' + url.pathname;
   }
 
@@ -430,7 +435,7 @@ function toString(stringify) {
 
   if (protocol && protocol.charAt(protocol.length - 1) !== ':') protocol += ':';
 
-  var result = protocol + (url.slashes ? '//' : '');
+  var result = protocol + (url.slashes || url.protocol === 'file:' ? '//' : '');
 
   if (url.username) {
     result += url.username;

test/test.js

@@ -438,6 +438,48 @@ describe('url-parse', function () {
       data.set('protocol', 'https:');
       assume(data.href).equals('https://google.com/foo');
     });
+
+    it('handles the file: protocol', function () {
+      var slashes = ['', '/', '//', '///', '////', '/////'];
+      var data;
+      var url;
+
+      for (var i = 0; i < slashes.length; i++) {
+        data = parse('file:' + slashes[i]);
+        assume(data.protocol).equals('file:');
+        assume(data.pathname).equals('/');
+        assume(data.href).equals('file:///');
+      }
+
+      url = 'file:///Users/foo/BAR/baz.pdf';
+      data = parse(url);
+      assume(data.protocol).equals('file:');
+      assume(data.pathname).equals('/Users/foo/BAR/baz.pdf');
+      assume(data.href).equals(url);
+
+      url = 'file:///foo/bar?baz=qux#hash';
+      data = parse(url);
+      assume(data.protocol).equals('file:');
+      assume(data.hash).equals('#hash');
+      assume(data.query).equals('?baz=qux');
+      assume(data.pathname).equals('/foo/bar');
+      assume(data.href).equals(url);
+
+      data = parse('file://c:\\foo\\bar\\');
+      assume(data.protocol).equals('file:');
+      assume(data.pathname).equals('/c:/foo/bar/');
+      assume(data.href).equals('file:///c:/foo/bar/');
+
+      data = parse('foo/bar', 'file:///baz');
+      assume(data.protocol).equals('file:');
+      assume(data.pathname).equals('/foo/bar');
+      assume(data.href).equals('file:///foo/bar');
+
+      data = parse('foo/bar', 'file:///baz/');
+      assume(data.protocol).equals('file:');
+      assume(data.pathname).equals('/baz/foo/bar');
+      assume(data.href).equals('file:///baz/foo/bar');
+    });
   });
 
   describe('ip', function () {