169682 - Will not open embeded link

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 84128

(Core :: Networking: File, defect)

Description

[Denis Van Dale]

We have an internal web page for employee use.  There are serveral links that
can be opened only if you are logged in to the LAN.  The form of the link is as
follows

file:///f:/scu/manuals/index.htm

This should open a second page, but does not.  BTW Netscape 6.x and 7.x have the
same problem.  Netscape 4.x works as does IE. Strangely if I enter the link in
the url manually, it does open the second page.  The second page has several
links using the same format and these work OK.

We have an application that is web based called eCabinet from RIcoh that runs on
FreeBSD.  It has links that will not open using Mozilla or Netscape 6.x or 7.x
but work fine with IE and Netscape 4.7

Comment 1

[Michael Lefevre]

WFM with 2002111817/1.2/win2k.

reporter (Denis): can you reproduce this bug with a recent build of mozilla (for
example, 1.2)? if so, please comment again with details. if not, please resolve
this bug as WORKSFORME. thanks.

Comment 2

[Chris Lyon]

->Networking

Comment 3

[Chris Lyon]

really assigning.  sorry for the spam

Comment 4

[benc]

Is the URL of the page w/ the link http or https?

Comment 5

[benc]

Denis: mozilla will not (by default) allow users to follow file:// URLs that are
in pages that came from a network server (like http: or https:).

Is this the case for you?

Comment 6

[Xavi Miró]

I have the same problem. I'm using a Java servlet to return HTML pages and one
of them has local file links. If I open the page as an HTML file, the links
work, but if the page is returned from a server, it doesn't do anything nor does
it show an error message (I thought it was a bug!!!).

I understand the security reasons to not let this local links work when they
come from a server, and I know it's better to write links to http URLs (the same
local files put in a public directory of a web server, for example), but:

1) An error message would be extremely useful to let the user know it is not a bug
2) I think this feature should be configurable (I don't know whether it is
already configurable, but I haven't found the option in the preferences)

Comment 7

[benc]

RESOLVED/dupe:
The problem is that ALL file links are disabled on pages that came from a server
(http:, https: URLS).

http://www.mozilla.org/quality/networking/docs/netprefs.html#file

You can turn this feature off w/ about:config.

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