+    // we get data in the text/uri-list format, i.e. as a sequence of URIs
+    // (filenames prefixed by "file:") delimited by "\r\n"
+    wxString filename;
+    for ( const char *p = (const char *)buf; ; p++ )
+    {
+        // some broken programs (testdnd GTK+ sample!) omit the trailing
+        // "\r\n", so check for '\0' explicitly here instead of doing it in
+        // the loop statement to account for it
+        if ( (*p == '\r' && *(p+1) == '\n') || !*p )
+        {
+            size_t lenPrefix = 5; // strlen("file:")
+            if ( filename.Left(lenPrefix).MakeLower() == _T("file:") )
+            {
+                // sometimes the syntax is "file:filename", sometimes it's
+                // URL-like: "file://filename" - deal with both
+                if ( filename[lenPrefix] == _T('/') &&
+                     filename[lenPrefix + 1] == _T('/') )
+                {
+                    // skip the slashes
+                    lenPrefix += 2;
+                }
+
+                AddFile(wxURI::Unescape(filename.c_str() + lenPrefix));
+                filename.Empty();
+            }
+            else
+            {
+                wxLogDebug(_T("Unsupported URI '%s' in wxFileDataObject"),
+                           filename.c_str());
+            }
+
+            if ( !*p )
+                break;
+
+            // skip '\r'
+            p++;
+        }
+        else
+        {
+            filename += *p;
+        }
+    }