174836 - URL context for acroread plugin not right, breaks links between pdf docs

Status: RESOLVED WORKSFORME

(Core Graveyard :: Plug-ins, defect)

Description

[John Ellson]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.2b) Gecko/20021009
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.2b) Gecko/20021009

Links between pdf docs worked OK in Netscape 4 using the Adobe acroread plugin,
but in Mozilla a link such as "cd_a1/etsi_eg/202100_202199/eg_202106v010101p.pdf"
doesn't work.  The plugin complains "no such file or directory".

Note that the href is relative to the URL of the current pdf document, which in
this case was: http://etsi.mirror.lucent.com/eds0207cda1/etsica1.pdf

I think the problem is probably that the current context
(http://etsi.mirror.lucent.com/eds0207cda1/)
is not properly available to the plugin for it to form the full URL
of the linked page.



Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1.Open a pdf document containing relative links in the acroread plugin
2.click on a link to another pdf file
3.

Actual Results:  
file not found

Expected Results:  
clicking on a hyperlink in a PDF document should work

Comment 1

[rubydoo123]

unable to access the url, can you supply an url that can be accessed?

Comment 2

[John Ellson]

Never mind.   It works for me now.

Either its been fixed or I was all screwed up when I wrote the report.

Mozilla 1.2b

Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.2b) Gecko/20021017

Comment 3

[rubydoo123]

great news -- marking as wfm