200051 - clicking file: links does nothing

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 84128

(SeaMonkey :: MailNews: Message Display, defect)

Description

[Simon Liddington]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-GB; rv:1.3) Gecko/20030312
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-GB; rv:1.3) Gecko/20030312

clicking a file: link to a local or network mapped file in a mail message does
nothing at all. I believe this is considered a security risk and so not allowed.
If so, a message would be nice.

open in window or tab both do nothing too. Save link targer works - allows you
to save the file.

This one's interesting if it is considered a security risk - "bookmark this
link" saves a bookmark and selecting it opens the file.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1.send yourself a message with a file: link
2.click the link
3.try bookmark this link and opening bookmark too



Expected Results:  
Opened file or given a message.



If it is a security risk, I think it would be nice to be warned but still given
the option of opening anyway. I want to send a work colleague a link to a
network mapped file which we both have access to.

Comment 1

[Boris Zbarsky [:bzbarsky]]

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