203416 - links to file://localhost/.... don't work when index page is on a web server

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 84128

(SeaMonkey :: General, defect)

Description

[Jim Graham]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.4a) Gecko/20030401
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.4a) Gecko/20030401

I've noticed a problem with the newer versions (not sure when it started) of
Mozilla that causes links to local directories to fail when the index file
they're in is served by a web server.  Example:  in my home network, my web
server is on my FreeBSD machine, and my main index pages are handled for all
of my systems by that machine.  There's a link in there to
file://localhost/d:/jdg/ (among others).  This works fine if I type it into
the address bar, or use a bookmark in Mozilla.

However....when that same address is served by the web server (or any other
web server I have write access to), it does nothing....  Middle-click doesn't
open the link in a new tab.  Right-click menus to open it in a new tab or new
window do nothing.  No error messages, etc...but also no new tab/window.



Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Create an HTML index file with a link to, e.g., file://localhost/d:/dirname/
2. Put that file on a web server and load from the server.
3. Click on the link.  Nothing happens.  Use right-click menu, middle-click,
etc....nothing happens.

Actual Results:  
Nothing.  No new page, no error, etc.

Expected Results:  
Open the link to the directory as it would if the index file were on the local
drive, and as it used to do regardless.

Comment 1

[Matthias Versen [:Matti]]

That's not new and this is also in the release notes.
(see the release notes how ti disable this and see tools/web
Development/Javascript Console for the error message )



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