Description of problem:
According to the yum man page 'yum -c' can specify a local file or a
http or ftp url as the location of the config file.  This has always
worked with previous releases but with FC5 it fails.


Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):
2.6.0-1

How reproducible:
always


Steps to Reproduce:
1. put a yum config file on a web server
2. yum -c http://web.server/path/to/yum.conf
3.
  
Actual results:
yum reports:

Config Error: No such config file http://...

Expected results:
Yum should fetch the config file from the web server.


Additional info:
wget fetches the config file from the same URL so the problem is
not with the URL or the web server.

tcpdump on the web server doesn't show any connection from the
client which indicates yum isn't trying to fetch it as a URL
but looking for it as a file.

when I created a directory with the path http://... and copied the
yum.conf file into that directory 'yum -c http://...' worked.  
Indicates that yum is treating the URL as a path.