opscode/chef — pull request #192 by ichiro101 (2011-11-28 18:15:40+00:00)
Title: Support for invalid url's in remote_file

Remote file currently thinks url like
> some_invalid_url.google.com/somefile.txt
as a local file because it's specification invalid. This patch overrides that by doing a simple http:// prefix check if url is specification invalid.