210722 - Links from file:// shouldn't need to activate the Download Manager!!!

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 73757

(SeaMonkey :: General, enhancement)

Description

[Pierre Dumuid]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.2.1) Gecko/20030225
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.2.1) Gecko/20030225

When accessing a html document on a local file system (as in file://, such as
Hard drives, CD-ROM drives etc.) hyperlinks referencing local files (i.e. <a
href="test.mp3">listen</a>) shouldn't be activate the download manager because
the file is already locally accessable!!! (the download manager will just make
another copy on the hard-drive of a file that may already be on the hard drive.)

Rather, the post-download window should show up with how the user wishes to run
 the file, and then execute that program with reference to the file location.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Create a file called example.html with a link: <A
HREF="ding.wav">Example</a>; and save it in a directory on your computer.

2. Make a wav file and rename it to ding.wav and place it in the same directory
as example.html

3. Open example.html in mozilla, and click the hyperlink

Actual Results:  
It asks you what you want to open the file in, (and then proceeds to download a
temporary copy of the file somewher)

Expected Results:  
Should asks you what you want to open the file in, and then IMMEDIATELY open the
file from that location in the program specified WITHOUT DOWNLOADING THE FILE.

Comment 1

[Jo Hermans]

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 73757 ***