188107 - Clicking on a html link that is linked to a mapped share on a Windows Server

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 84128

(Core Graveyard :: File Handling, defect)

Description

[Derrick Rose]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:1.3a) Gecko/20021212
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:1.3a) Gecko/20021212

Whenever a link is displayed with a link to a shared drive Mozilla will not open
the file.

Example: <a
href="file://testserver/share$/directory1/subdirectory1/file.pdf">Test File</a>

Clicking on the link does nothing.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Click on link
2.
3.

Actual Results:  
Nothing Happened

Expected Results:  
Open the file like it resides on the web server.

Comment 1

[Matthias Versen [:Matti]]

You can only access file:// links if the html file is also loaded via file://
see tools/web development/Javascript Console

and you wouldn't report this bug if you read the release notes. (Please always
read it before reporting a bug)

open the release notes and search for "checkloaduri".


*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 84128 ***

Comment 2

[timeless]

err, more likely this is a dupe of windows urls not being correctly formed.

reporter: if you change the urls from file:// to file://// things should be happier.

to work around the security issue, drag links from the content area, up to the
urlbar and then drop them in the content area.