Just strip off the leading slash

Author: jsignell

pystac/link.py

@@ -172,7 +172,6 @@ def get_href(self, transform_href: bool = True) -> str | None:
             href = self._target_object.get_self_href()
         else:
             href = self._target_href
-        print("starting href:", href)
 
         if (
             transform_href
@@ -192,7 +191,6 @@ def get_href(self, transform_href: bool = True) -> str | None:
                     owner_href = self.owner.get_self_href()
                     if owner_href is not None:
                         href = make_relative_href(href, owner_href)
-        print("new href:", href)
         return href
 
     @property

pystac/utils.py

@@ -50,17 +50,15 @@ def safe_urlparse(href: str) -> URLParseResult:
     Returns:
         urllib.parse.ParseResult : The named tuple representing the parsed HREF.
     """
-    print("href:", href)
     parsed = urlparse(href)
-    print(parsed.scheme, parsed.netloc, parsed.path)
     if parsed.scheme != "" and (
         href.lower().startswith(f"{parsed.scheme}:\\")
         or (
             href.lower().startswith(f"{parsed.scheme}:/")
             and not href.lower().startswith(f"{parsed.scheme}://")
         )
     ):
-        output = URLParseResult(
+        return URLParseResult(
             scheme="",
             netloc="",
             path="{}:{}".format(
@@ -73,19 +71,22 @@ def safe_urlparse(href: str) -> URLParseResult:
             query=parsed.query,
             fragment=parsed.fragment,
         )
-        print("non-file scheme gives:", output.path)
-        return output
-    if parsed.scheme == "file" and parsed.netloc:
-        output = URLParseResult(
+    if parsed.scheme == "file":
+        # Windows drives sometimes get parsed as the netloc and sometimes
+        # as part of the parsed.path.
+        if parsed.netloc:
+            path = f"{parsed.netloc}{parsed.path}"
+        elif parsed.path.startswith("/") and os.name == "nt":
+            path = parsed.path[1:]
+
+        return URLParseResult(
             scheme=parsed.scheme,
             netloc="",
-            path=f"{parsed.netloc}{parsed.path}",
+            path=path,
             params=parsed.params,
             query=parsed.query,
             fragment=parsed.fragment,
         )
-        print("file scheme gives:", output.path)
-        return output
     else:
         return parsed