I think I posted that patch as 'pre' instead of 'verbatim'.  To safe a lot of frustration if you didn't notice the <nowiki>[bad-link:0]</nowiki> in there, here's a better copy:

<verbatim>
--- src/http_transport.c
+++ src/http_transport.c
@@ -140,14 +140,21 @@
 /*
 ** This routine is called when the outbound message is complete and
 ** it is time to being recieving a reply.
 */
 void transport_flip(void){
+#ifdef __MINGW32__
+  /* If a command begins with a quote, cmd.exe will strip the leading char
+   * and the last quote char on the line.  See 'cmd /?' */
+  char* cmdformat = http
+#else
+  char* cmdformat = http
+#endif
   if( g.urlIsFile ){
     char *zCmd;
     fclose(transport.pFile);
-    zCmd = http
+    zCmd = mprintf(cmdformat,
        g.argv[0], g.urlName, transport.zOutFile, transport.zInFile
     );
     system(zCmd);
     free(zCmd);
     transport.pFile = fopen(transport.zInFile, "rb");

</verbatim>