201993 - drive link problem

Status: VERIFIED DUPLICATE of bug 122022

(Core :: Networking: File, defect)

Description

[James Long]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 6.0; Windows NT 5.0)
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0

I can't get a webpage to link using this code that works in IE <a 
href="file:///c:/">c:/</a>

When the webpage is posted the server the link does nothing at all, it should 
link up to your C: drive.

I have tried a apatche and microsoft server same problem


Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1.create html file
2.put a link to a drive on it 
3.post it to a server 
4.run it

Actual Results:  
nothing, it should link the drive local on your computer.

Expected Results:  
it should have linked right to the drive on your computer like IE does.

Comment 1

[Hermann Schwab]

DUPE of bug 122022

Bug 122022 [ISSUE] file:// URLs in a http | https page do not work (clicking
does nothing, do not auto-load, etc.) [dupe to bug 84128]

and as I see from bug 84128#c20 you also need a pref to bypass a security check,
since linking from a webserver to a local file is supposed to be a risk.

user_pref("security.checkloaduri", false);

Comment 2

[Darin Fisher]

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

Comment 3

[Matthias Versen [:Matti]]

the pref is also in the release notes.
Please read it the next time before you report a bug.

Thanks

Verified dupe