Closed Bug 278107 Opened 20 years ago Closed 20 years ago

file://// URIs do not work when BASE HREF specified

Categories

(Firefox :: General, defect)

Product:
Firefox
Component:
General
Platform:
x86
Windows 2000
Type:
defect
Priority:
Not set
Severity:
normal

Tracking

()

Status:
RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 145421

People

(Reporter: ade, Assigned: bugzilla)

Details

Put the following HTML into a file.

<head>
<base href="http://www.mozilla.org/">
</head>
<body>
<a href="file://///my-smb-server/my-smb-share/my-folder">test</a>
</body>

Open that in FireFox. Click the link. It does not work.

Then remove the base href line, and try again. It works. (Either it really
displays that directory, or, if the server doesn't exist, you'll get a message
saying so).
see http://www.w3.org/TR/REC-html40/struct/links.html#h-12.4

what is <a href="file://///my-smb-server/my-smb-share/my-folder">test</a>
supposed to ref to , the drive letter is missing?
Status: UNCONFIRMED → RESOLVED
Closed: 20 years ago
Resolution: --- → INVALID
Sorry, a bit more detail necessary :-)

That's supposed to refer to a UNC path (Windows SMB server), i.e. \\my-smb-server\my-smb-
share\my-folder.

There is no entirely standard way of describing a UNC path within a file: URI (depressingly). The nicest 
way would seem to be:

file://my-smb-server/my-smb-share/my-folder

but as far as I know that doesn't work in IE or Firefox. Instead, the de-facto standard seems to be:

file://///my-smb-server/my-smb-share/my-folder

which can be written alternatively as

file:///\\my-smb-server\my-smb-share\my-folder

The reason this is supposed to work is that the first two slashes denote the host, which is empty, then 
there's a slash denoting the root of the drive hierarchy. Then we go into Windows pathnames, i.e. \\ to 
denote a UNC path.

Note that it DOES work fine without a BASE HREF specified. Note also that the issue of the particular 
syntax should be beyond the scope of this bug, as it's discussed in various others.
Status: RESOLVED → UNCONFIRMED
Resolution: INVALID → ---
Looks like Bug 145421.

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 145421 ***
Status: UNCONFIRMED → RESOLVED
Closed: 20 years ago → 20 years ago
Resolution: --- → DUPLICATE
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