258342 - no way to use view source of a .url file to get the source of the url file

Status: RESOLVED EXPIRED

(Core Graveyard :: View Source, defect, P5)

Description

[timeless]

steps:
1. load url
2. drag url proxy to file system
3. file>open
4. rename that file to have /some/ name
5. open the .url file
6. view>source

actual results:
<form onsubmit="/o/bar"><a onclick="window.status='onsubmit' in document.forms[0]">a

expected results:
source of the url file...

[InternetShortcut]
URL=data:text/html,<form onsubmit="/o/bar"><a onclick="window.status='onsubmit'
in document.forms[0]">a

Comment 1

[[e-mail]]

IIRC someone already filed a bug that opening a .url file uses IE to download
the file into cache and opens from IE's cache; GetOpenFileName needs to be
passed the OFN_NODEREFERENCELINKS flag.

Comment 2

[Christian :Biesinger (don't email me, ping me on IRC)]

no, bug 251651 is different... this bug is that mozilla itself follows the link
in the url file, I think.

Comment 3

[[e-mail]]

Mozilla does not open links in .url files. To demonstrate this, write a url to a
.url file by hand instead of expecting the file open dialog to get it right.

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 251651 ***

Comment 4

[Christian :Biesinger (don't email me, ping me on IRC)]

it is supposed to follow them, since that was the entire point of my patch for
Bug 69114

Comment 5

[[e-mail]]

Sigh, it seems MinGW doesn't support .url files, but when I drop a .url onto 1.6
it opens the linked page, so view source won't show me the .url source...

Comment 6

[Robert Kaiser]

MASS-CHANGE:
This bug report is registered in the SeaMonkey product, but has been without a comment since the inception of the SeaMonkey project. This means that it was logged against the old Mozilla suite and we cannot determine that it's still valid for the current SeaMonkey suite. Because of this, we are setting it to an UNCONFIRMED state.

If you can confirm that this report still applies to current SeaMonkey 2.x nightly builds, please set it back to the NEW state along with a comment on how you reproduced it on what Build ID, or if it's an enhancement request, why it's still worth implementing and in what way.
If you can confirm that the report doesn't apply to current SeaMonkey 2.x nightly builds, please set it to the appropriate RESOLVED state (WORKSFORME, INVALID, WONTFIX, or similar).
If no action happens within the next few months, we move this bug report to an EXPIRED state.

Query tag for this change: mass-UNCONFIRM-20090614

Comment 7

[Robert Kaiser]

MASS-CHANGE:
This bug report is registered in the SeaMonkey product, but still has no comment since the inception of the SeaMonkey project 5 years ago.

Because of this, we're resolving the bug as EXPIRED.

If you still can reproduce the bug on SeaMonkey 2 or otherwise think it's still valid, please REOPEN it and if it is a platform or toolkit issue, move it to the according component.

Query tag for this change: EXPIRED-20100420