269860 - Problem browsing local files with pathing to CSS, JS files

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 143021

(Firefox :: File Handling, defect)

Description

[Ross Wells]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 6.0; Windows NT 5.1; SV1; .NET CLR 1.1.4322)
Build Identifier: FireFox 1.0

My HTML pages all contain absolute paths to my CSS files.
e.g. <link href="/weblib/webscrn.css" rel="stylesheet">
The /weblib is a virtual directory on the web server when running in 
production.

When browsing local files on my C Drive under Internet Explorer (e.g. by 
clicking on the HTM using explorer), IE seems to look for the CSS file in 
c:\weblib on my local disk and therefore my page gets rendered correctly 
locally.
This allows me to prototype/test my HTML files locally without first having to 
copy them up to a web server to test.

But Firefox doesn't seem to support this useful ability. Unfortunately I can 
not replace IE with FF without support for this feature.

If I remove the leading "/" from the path then Firefox finds the local CSS 
files correctly if I keep a copy of the CSS file in a WEBLIB folder underneath 
the folder as the HTML files. I do not want to have to remove the leading "/" 
just to be able to view the page locally, I would have to put it back before 
uploading the pages to the web server.

Ideally I would like Firefox to look for (in my example) the CSS files in a 
folder called \WEBLIB off the ROOT of my current local drive when the HTML 
<link...> command as above has the path as /WEBLIB/WEBSCRN.CSS.

Ross.



Reproducible: Always
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Comment 1

[Bent Lynggård]

Substituting "file:///c:/" or a proper number of "../"s for the leading "/"
makes it work in FF. - Only a comment, certainly not a solution.

Comment 2

[Bent Lynggård]

Inspired by other bug reports I have tried to create subfolder _common with file
roottest.js within C:\Program Files\Mozilla Firefox and its subfolders, and then
tested
  <script language="javascript" src="/_common/roottest.js"></script>
but, alas, to no avail. I havn't tried deeper nestings, maybe someone with
better knowledge to the structure have ideas?

The problem exists also on other disk partitions.

Comment 3

[OstGote!]

see Bug 143021

Comment 4

[timeless]

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 143021 ***