If the URL did not specify a scheme, try to guess it from the host name.

1 files changed, 10 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/usr.bin/fetch/fetch.c b/usr.bin/fetch/fetch.c
index c24d288659a4..024d71e806d4 100644
--- a/usr.bin/fetch/fetch.c
+++ b/usr.bin/fetch/fetch.c
@@ -197,6 +197,16 @@ fetch(char *URL, char *path)
 	goto failure;
     }
 
+    /* if no scheme was specified, take a guess */
+    if (!*url->scheme) {
+	if (!*url->host)
+	    strcpy(url->scheme, SCHEME_FILE);
+	else if (strncasecmp(url->host, "ftp.", 4))
+	    strcpy(url->scheme, SCHEME_FTP);
+	else if (strncasecmp(url->host, "www.", 4))
+	    strcpy(url->scheme, SCHEME_HTTP);
+    }
+
     timeout = 0;
     *flags = 0;
     count = 0;