131119 - link to network neighborhood fails

Status: VERIFIED DUPLICATE of bug 84128

(Core :: Networking: File, defect)

Description

[Jos.vandenOever]

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User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Win98; en-US; rv:0.9.9) Gecko/20020311
BuildID:    2002031104

Typing a url like file://////host/dir/file works.
If a link like this is clicked from a webpage, nothing happens.
The file should be accessed, but treated as a remote file in some ways.  
A .exe cannot be executed, but e.g. an mp3 or avi may be opened like that,
without downloading, since SMB take care of that.





Reproducible: Always
Steps to Reproduce:
1.click on a link like file://///host/name/file
2.
3.

Actual Results:  nothing happens

Expected Results:  access the desired file

IE6 handles links like this well and even gives good security warnings.

Comment 1

[Boris Zbarsky [:bzbarsky]]

We block all remote access to the local filesystem as a security precaution. 
You can turn off this security precaution if you so desire (and are willing to
accept the associated security risks).

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

Comment 2

[benc]

VERIFIED: (RC1 cleanup)
same problem.