6936 - file:// Can not view directories

Status: VERIFIED FIXED

(Core :: Networking: File, defect, P3)

Description

[jim_nance]

Using a file URL to view the contents of a directory other than / does
not work.  For example If I try to open file:/tmp or file:///tmp I see
no files in the directory despite the fact that several exist.  Other
directories have the problem too, but looking at / does seem to work.

From looking at strace output it seems that the problem is that apprunner
is trying to stat the files in the directory using an incorrect
relitive path rather than the absolute path.  When this fails it assumes
that the files are not really there:

172 196
/* 10 entries */, 3933) = 196
stat("tmp/.X0-lock", 0xbfffd464)        = -1 ENOENT (No such file or directory)
stat("tmp/jln", 0xbfffd464)             = -1 ENOENT (No such file or directory)
stat("tmp/look", 0xbfffd464)            = -1 ENOENT (No such file or directory)
stat("tmp/.X11-unix", 0xbfffd464)       = -1 ENOENT (No such file or directory)
stat("tmp/.font-unix", 0xbfffd464)      = -1 ENOENT (No such file or directory)
stat("tmp/nscomm40-lisa", 0xbfffd464)   = -1 ENOENT (No such file or directory)
stat("tmp/wpc-Bessie", 0xbfffd464)      = -1 ENOENT (No such file or directory)
stat("tmp/tksysv-backup", 0xbfffd464)   = -1 ENOENT (No such file or directory)
lseek(13, 0, SEEK_CUR)                  = 1024

Comment 1

[Ben Mesander]

Same or similar problem happens on MacOS 8.6, Mozilla M6. Directories are not
browseable.

Comment 2

[Gagan]

Pushed past necko landing...

Comment 3

[leger]

Changing all Networking Library/Browser bugs to Networking-Core component for
Browser.

Occasionally, Bugzilla will burp and cause Verified bugs to reopen when I do
this in a bulk change.  If this happens, I will fix. ;-)

Comment 4

[Gagan]

Pl. verify this with Necko builds. Should be fixed now. (If not pls. assign to
warren)

Comment 5

[Paul MacQuiddy]

file url's are not looking good. Something like file://c:/ should give a
directory listing on windows at least, per 4.x behavior. I get a
blank screen, however, on win95. Re-assigning to warren per gagzilla's
instructions

Note: you can open local files using the File - Open menu no problem

Comment 6

[Paul MacQuiddy]

*** Bug 737 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

Comment 7

[Paul MacQuiddy]

*** Bug 4993 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

Comment 8

[Warren Harris]

Setting component to necko.

Comment 9

[Warren Harris]

Moving to m10.

Comment 10

[Paul MacQuiddy]

*** Bug 11424 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

Comment 11

[Zaw Oo]

Tried on 1999070614 <mislabel build of 8/13/1999.

To reproduce :
1. Run apprunner
2. Type File:// and hit enter
     Result : apprunner will display Unknow Contant windows.  On the Apprunner
console this will display regarding to this action :
{
DocLoaderFactory: Unable to create ContentViewer for command=view, content-type=
(null) }

note : But if you have valid HTML file it'll be happy to render it.
surch as this one. file:///C|/MOZILLA/BIN/res/samples/test2.html

file:///C|/MOZILLA/BIN/res/samples/test2.html

Comment 12

[Warren Harris]

Chris has changes for this now.

Comment 13

[Paul MacQuiddy]

this is in on all platforms, looking pretty snazzy! There are a few bugs, which
will be filed separately, so marking this tracker bug verified.

Comment 14

[leger]

Bulk move of all Necko (to be deleted component) bugs to new Networking

component.