181943 - Mozilla doesn't handle Unix file path URLs

Status: VERIFIED DUPLICATE of bug 140606

(Core :: Networking: File, defect)

Description

[Mark Eaton]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; PPC Mac OS X; en-US; rv:1.2b) Gecko/20021016
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; PPC Mac OS X; en-US; rv:1.2b) Gecko/20021016

The URL 

file://localhost/private/tmp/501/Cleanup%20At%20Startup/Release%20Notes2.html

Doesn't work for Mozilla (or Netscape). This is a properly formed file:// URL
and other browsers on OS X handle it correctly (IE, OmniWeb, etc.)

Strangely enough, Chimera does handle it properly.

Mozilla seems to want a bastardized file:// URL which has

a) an extra slash

b) the HFS volume label in place of localhost

c) slashes rather than colons (even though it begins with an HFS volume label)

and looks like this:

file://Jaguar/private/tmp/501/Cleanup%20At%20Startup/Release%20Notes2.html

We've added special-case code to our app (RealOne Player) for handing off URLs
to Mozilla derived browsers, but it would be better if Mozilla handled the more
correct form on OS X.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
Type a URL to any file on the machine, but use a standard Unix path

Actual Results:  
page not found error

Expected Results:  
located the file at the specified path

Comment 1

[Boris Zbarsky [:bzbarsky]]

networking

Comment 2

[Greg K.]

Dup of/related to bug 140606?

Comment 3

[benc]

Mozilla is currently CFM based, while Chimera is Mach-O. This affects the file
I/O libraries they use, which has an effect on their conception of the
path->file URL conversion.

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 140606 ***

Comment 4

[Frankie]

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