You know, I could have sworn that I only looked for a : as the separator.
Not according to php_stream_locate_url_wrapper():
for (p = path; isalnum((int)*p) || *p == '+' || *p == '-' || *p == '.'; p++) n++;
if ((*p == ':') && (n > 1) && !strncmp("://", p, 3)) {
protocol = path;
} else if (strncasecmp(path, "zlib:", 5) == 0) {
...
}
Which of course says: "It it ain't [a-zA-Z0-9+.-]+://, and it ain't zlib:, then it ain't a wrapper."
I seem to remember a discussion about this in the past, but don't
recall the details.
The only thing that positively leaps to mind is the ability to read-from/write-to alternate data streams under win32. But I suppose that could be worked around easily enough. If nothing else an explicit file:// scheme when that's needed would remedy the problem. Remind me what the *nixes do with ':' ?
-Sara