1143416 - Network tool not giving error for file not found in local directory

Status: NEW

(DevTools :: Netmonitor, enhancement, P3)

Description

[John Brearley]

Attachment: js_animate.html

User Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; WOW64; rv:36.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/36.0
Build ID: 20150305021524

Steps to reproduce:

1) load html file from local directory with typo in src=file tag
2) html file has: <script type="text/javascript" src="js_animatezz.js"></script>
3) do F12, look in Network Tool for errors


Actual results:

1) files that were loaded correctly show up fine, with correct status
2) there was NO info at all shown for the file js_animatezz.js that was not found

NB: When the html file is put in Apache htdocs folder of the localhost web server, Firefox will correctly complain about the missing file. The issue only occurs when the file is loaded from a local directory, without a web server involved. 


Expected results:

1) There should have been a RED 404 entry for the file js_animatezz.js

NB: When the html file is put in Apache htdocs folder of the localhost web server, Firefox will correctly complain about the missing file. The issue only occurs when the file is loaded from a local directory, without a web server involved.

Comment 1

[Maire Reavy [:mreavy]]

Not sure if this should be Networking or DevTools

Comment 2

[J. Ryan Stinnett [:jryans] (Use needinfo, replies may be slow)]

Net monitor currently does not track file:// requests, so that sounds like the issue here when loaded without a server.

Comment 3

[Jan Honza Odvarko [:Honza] (always need-info? me)]

Inactive bug, moving to the backlog (P3)
Honza