159879 - an http:// served page does not resolve file:/// urls

Status: VERIFIED DUPLICATE of bug 122022

(Core :: Networking: File, defect)

Description

[Greg Ercolano]

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User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.0.0) Gecko/20020529
BuildID:    2002052918

http:// pages that contain file:/// links don't resolve.

Clicking on the link causes nothing to happen; no error, no change in the page.

Right clicking on link and choosing 'Open Link In New Window' has same effect;
nothing happens, no new window opens, no error.

There is no apparent workaround, so this seems pretty severe.
See example URL for more info.

Reproducible: Always
Steps to Reproduce:
1. Make a page on a web server that contains the html:
   Here's your <A HREF="file:///etc/passwd">/etc/passwd</A> file.

2. View that page using an http:// style URL.

3. When the page comes up, click on the /etc/passwd link


Actual Results:  Clicking on the link, no new page displayed, no error message.

Expected Results:  Shows the local document

Manually pasting the above url "file:///etc/passwd" into the URL input bar works..! 

Also, I think errors should be displayed here instead of the 'nothing' response.

Comment 1

[Greg Ercolano]

I should have mentioned:
OS: RedHat Linux 7.2, Window Manager=Gnome

Comment 2

[R.K.Aa.]

see also bug 84128

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 122022 ***

Comment 3

[Tom Everingham]

verified dup