288456 - Open HTML link file open content of the file instead of show the web page

Status: RESOLVED EXPIRED

(Firefox :: Bookmarks & History, defect)

Description

[Patrice Gauvin]

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

I use FireFox 1.0 on Mandrake and when I double click on a link file (create 
by firefox or Internet Explorer), the brower open open the content of the file.
Example for a link file created by Internet Explorer
DEFAULT]
BASEURL=http://www.wdworld.com/apprecieheberg.asp?appr=oui
[InternetShortcut]
URL=http://www.wdworld.com/apprecieheberg.asp?appr=oui
Modified=808C1053DA20C5012F


Example for a link file created by FireFox :
http://www.dslreports.com/wakeup


Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
Open a link created by IE (In the favorite folder) 
Or
Drag and drop a web page on Desktop by using FireFox

Try to open these link...
Actual Results:  
Open the content of the file instead of show the webpage

Expected Results:  
Show the web page

Comment 1

[fmrl]

Over http I went to site:
http://bees.ucr.edu/riversidedance
and followed the "email contact" link to:
http://bees.ucr.edu/riversidedance/emailpage
"emailpage" does not have a .htm or html extension and opened as source rather
than as page.
If I create a file on my computer with exact coding and no extension, and use
Firefox to "Open file" it does open as page, but in opening location over http,
did not open as page.

Comment 2

[Gervase Markham [:gerv]]

This is an automated message, with ID "auto-resolve01".

This bug has had no comments for a long time. Statistically, we have found that
bug reports that have not been confirmed by a second user after three months are
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Comment 3

[Gervase Markham [:gerv]]

This bug has been automatically resolved after a period of inactivity (see above
comment). If anyone thinks this is incorrect, they should feel free to reopen it.

Comment 4

[Mike Connor [:mconnor]]

sorry for bugspam, long-overdue mass reassign of ancient QA contact bugs, filter on "beltznerLovesGoats" to get rid of this mass change

Comment 5

[Alex Keybl [:akeybl]]

looks like an errant blocking request