File:// protocol causes crash

[viking2917]

I'm using this to upload videos recorded by https://github.com/capacitor-community/video-recorder. On iOS the file uploads successfully, but on Android, it crashes.

The video-recorder produces file URLs of the form:

'http://192.168.1.36:8100/_capacitor_file_/storage/emulated/0/Android/data/<myappid>/files/VID_20250104103919.mp4'

on iOS, following the video-recorder example code, I replace it with a file:// URL and it works fine.
e.g.

filePath = 'file://' + srcVideo.split('_capacitor_file_')[1];

to produce a url like:

'file:///storage/emulated/0/Android/data/com.ionicframework.bookship/files/VID_20250104103919.mp4'

Uploading this file on Android using this plugin crashes with the following error:

Upload failed: Unsupported scheme for file:///storage/emulated/0/Android/data/<myappid>/files/VID_20250104103919.mp4.

Currently supported schemes are [/, content://]

If I replace file:// with '' on Android, it works. I do not know if that is expected, but ideally, the plugin would work the same on both platforms.