232889 - Link to PDF file does not respond or open

Status: RESOLVED INVALID

(SeaMonkey :: General, defect)

Description

[gene smith]

User-Agent:       
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:1.6) Gecko/20040113

An internal web-based application searches for and displays links to PDF
documents. When a pdf link is clicked on, nothing happens. (For all other sites,
when links to PDFs are clicked-on, acroread is launched as expected.)  
When the cursor is placed over the pdf link, the status bar at bottom shows:
file:///\\JOCY120\Csys1\active\2801501_A.PDF
When I right-click on the link and "copy link location" and paste to URL bar,
and hit enter, acroread runs and displays the file. When pasted to URL bar it
looks link this:
file:///%5C%5CJOCY120%5CCsys1%5Cactive%5C2801501_A.PDF

 

Reproducible: Always
Steps to Reproduce:
1. Go to internal web page with pdf links
2. Click on link
3. 

Actual Results:  
Nothing happen on click.

Expected Results:  
Launch acroread on click.

I will attach the source for an offending web page. Also, when IE is used on the
same page, it attempts to start acroread but indicates that an internal error
has occurred. It places \\JOCY120\Csys1\active\2801501_A.PDF in the URL bar.
When I type file:// in front of it and hit enter, acroread starts from IE too.
Possibly a similar bug in Moz and IE?

Comment 1

[gene smith]

Attachment: View source from typical offending page

Comment 2

[gene smith]

Attachment: View source from typical offending page

When I saved-as from view source did not get what I saw on screen. Sorry. Did
cut/paste this time to file. Should be a html file, not vbscript.

Comment 3

[Boris Zbarsky [:bzbarsky]]

> file:///\\JOCY120\Csys1\active\2801501_A.PDF

The problem is that IE treats '\' and '/' as synonymous in URLs.  Mozilla does
not (because they are not).  So the link points to different files in IE and
Mozilla...  If the page used '/' throughout in that link, it would work in both
browsers.