220271 - links don't get initial ..

Status: RESOLVED WORKSFORME

(Firefox :: General, defect)

Description

[Daniel Abraham]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.5a) Gecko/20030728 Mozilla Firebird/0.6.1
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.5a) Gecko/20030728 Mozilla Firebird/0.6.1

So far as I can tell, this is related to bug 189044 and bug 84242, but isn't
quite either.

I'm ftping to bar (local machine @ work, behind a firewall that I don't control,
sorry) as foo, and it puts me into /home/users/foo.  I want to be in /baz.  My
first thought was to enter ftp://foo@bar/../../../baz which worked fine, but
when I clicked file qux in baz, it told me that there was no such file as
/home/users/foo/baz/qux.  I can type ftp://foo@bar/../../../baz/qux and get the
file, but every link just ignores the initial ..s.

I have a workaround in typing ftp://foo@bar//www but that wouldn't work if I
couldn't read the root dir...

I wouldn't have been all that surprised if ftp://foo@bar/../ simply didn't work,
but when it did I was very surprised that it wouldn't give me the files listed
in the directory.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. ftp to a machine as a user with a non root home dir
2. enter ftp://foo@bar/../
3. click on any file listed

Actual Results:  
I was told that the file /home/users/foo/file didn't exist

Expected Results:  
given me /home/users/foo/../file (equiv to /home/users/file)

Comment 1

[Luke Nowak]

Luke Nowak - 25 February 2004

I have tried to replicate this bug using Firefox 0.8 on Windows XP and was 
unsuccessful. I was able to perform the steps prescribed in the report, but did 
not have any problem getting access to files as the reporter did. To perform 
the test I used my home Linux box as the FTP server and my Windows XP Pro 
laptop as the client.

Comment 2

[Daniel Abraham]

You're right, it's now gone for me too.  Is there some way to tell Bugzilla "it
got fixed by happenstance in the meantime"?  Thank you very much.

Comment 3

[Doron Rosenberg (IBM)]

wfm