322557 - file:///// url on windows linking to smb share

Status: RESOLVED INVALID

(Firefox :: General, defect)

Description

[gareth foster]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.8) Gecko/20051111 Firefox/1.5
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.8) Gecko/20051111 Firefox/1.5

we are trying to use links as follows:

file://///remoteMachine/someFolder/index.html

i can paste that into the location bar, and firefox will load the page fine. but, the following html doesn't allow me to naviagate to the page.

<a href="file://///remoteMachine/someFolder/index.html">Page</a><br />

the page is on another machine, shared over smb, and these links work fine in IE.

Reproducible: Always

Comment 1

[Jo Hermans]

See <http://kb.mozillazine.org/Links_to_local_pages_don%27t_work> (for Firefox, it's still a local file). For security reasons, you can load local files from the location bar, but by default not from a hyperlink.