153448 - Does not allow me to follow file:// links that are on http servers

Status: VERIFIED WONTFIX

(Core :: DOM: Core & HTML, defect)

Description

[David Yost]

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User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.1a) Gecko/20020610
BuildID:    2002061108

Mozilla does not seem to be following links to local files if the page is
downloaded from a web server.  For example the tag <a href="file:///">blah</a>
will not work if the page is on a web server, but will work if the page is
loaded locally.  

Reproducible: Always
Steps to Reproduce:
1.Create a webpage with a file:// link
2.Load the webpage from your local hard drive, the link will work.
3.Upload the webpage to a webserver and open the document from there and the
link will not work

Actual Results:  link is not followed

Expected Results:  it should follow the link

If this is meant as a security measure perhaps a warning message could be
displayed telling the user that the link is to a local file instead of not
following the link at all.

Comment 1

[Bob Clary [:bc] (inactive)]

David, look in the JavaScript console. You should see a message that remote
content can not link to local content or somethign similar. 

Comment 2

[Johnny Stenback (:jst)]

This is as designed, WONTFIX.

Comment 3

[Wesha]

*** Bug 189095 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

Comment 4

[Wesha]

see also bug 84128