292346 - html link source <a href="file://something.txt"> without reaktion, status shows wrong triple slashes

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 84128

(Firefox :: General, defect)

Description

[g.lamken]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; de-DE; rv:1.7.7) Gecko/20050414 Firefox/1.0.3
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; de-DE; rv:1.7.7) Gecko/20050414 Firefox/1.0.3

Links to lokal files on HTML pages with <a
href="file://C:/something.txt">something.txt</a> are out of function.
While the source seems ok, the status bar shows "file:///something.txt" with
triple shlashes.
Using "file://C:/something.txt" in the URL-Locator has no problems.


Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1.Edit a Text-File something.txt and put it in a local folder.
2.Edit a HTML-File with link to the local file 'something.txt' with full path.
Put this HTML-file on your webserver.
3. Open the HTML-file and click the link to something.txt
4. nothing happens.
5. Copy link location via right mouse-click
6. past link into URL-Locator and Enter
7. the file is loaded 

Actual Results:  
See 4. and 7.

Expected Results:  
click on Link should have the same result like using the URL-locator

Comment 1

[Magnus Melin [:mkmelin]]

It's cannot be accessed by the page for security reasons! Dupe of bug 84128.

Comment 2

[Frank Wein [:mcsmurf]]

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