Closed Bug 278943 Opened 20 years ago Closed 20 years ago

MS-DOS special device name AUX in file url causes issues

Categories

(Core :: XPCOM, defect)

1.7 Branch
x86
Windows XP
defect
Not set
normal

Tracking

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RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 29079

People

(Reporter: bugs, Assigned: dougt)

References

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Details

User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.2; en-US; rv:1.7.5) Gecko/20041107 Firefox/1.0 Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.7.5) Gecko/20041107 Firefox/1.0 Open mozilla and enter the url "file:///c:\aux" (w/o quotes) into the address bar. Mozilla 'looks for' this location indefinitely. Now exit mozilla. Observe that the mozilla.exe process is still running. Reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. Open mozilla and enter the url "file:///c:\aux" (w/o quotes) into the address bar. 2. Exit mozilla 3. Actual Results: Mozilla searches for c:\aux indefinitely. After you close the browser, Mozilla.exe process remains. Expected Results: 1. It should do nothing when you enter "file:///c:\aux". 2. Closing browser should kill the process.
*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 29079 ***
Status: UNCONFIRMED → RESOLVED
Closed: 20 years ago
Resolution: --- → DUPLICATE
Version: Trunk → 1.7 Branch
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