208557 - dropping an .url-file onto shortcut to Mozilla opens .url-file's source, but not the url.

Status: VERIFIED DUPLICATE of bug 69114

(SeaMonkey :: UI Design, enhancement)

Description

[Thorsten Langer]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.4) Gecko/20030529
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.4) Gecko/20030529

If I drop a .url-File onto desktop's shortcut to mozilla/fireball,
I get to view the source-code of the .url-file, but will not get 
connected to website.  

 This is a kind of strange, as I get to the website, both if I drop 
the file into an existing mozilla window or just dbl-click onto it.


Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:

Comment 1

[Jason M. Abels]

This is expected behavior. .url files are special windows files, and when you
attempt to load them directly from disk, they are read simply as a text file. If
you drag and drop into an open mozilla app (or double-click the file, if mozilla
is set to handle web documents), then it will open properly.

Suggest INVALID for this bug.

Comment 2

[Thorsten Langer]

 You are right, that there is a difference from the
developers point of view between (a) an object of dnd-flavor 
"URL" dropped into the running programm's window, (b) 
a parameter of a system call to open a web site (dbl click)
and (c) the start of an application with a parameter attached
to it (or however this is handled by Windows).

 But I'm still not sure, if it's not a bug, that there is a 
different behaviour between dropping the very same file onto 
a programms icon and dropping it into the very same programms 
window.

 I'm a bit doubtful, that this is the excepted behaviour when
opening .url files (or plain files): Opening the .url file via 
File->Open File... or File->Open Web Location... does not work 
appropriate:

 An error message pops up, claiming the file name was invalid.
(no white-spaces and дьц's in there).  So this is the third kind 
of reaction to an .url file I want to open.  (Maybe this is 
completely different issue?)

Comment 3

[Matthias Versen [:Matti]]

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 69114 ***

Comment 4

[benc]

-> XP Apps

Comment 5

[Jason M. Abels]

--> Verified