292782 - some file:// URIs don't work

Status: RESOLVED FIXED

(Minimo Graveyard :: General, defect)

Description

[Matt]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; PPC Mac OS X Mach-O; en-US; rv:1.7.7) Gecko/20050414 Firefox/1.0.3
Build Identifier: 

Build is from May 2 2005, has 'file' listed in the enable-necko-protocols option
in the mozconfig, sorry about the user agent, couldn't find it in the build, and
couldn't get to a page that displayed it without triggering PSM.

Anyway: I couldn't get file://\My Device\m\x.html, file://\m\x.html (works in
IE), or directories like file://\ working.  I didn't try a storage card, or
other volume.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Create an HTML file on the Pocket PC, say, \My Device\minimo\test.html 
2. Start winEmbed
3. Double tap for navigation page
4. Enter file://\My Device\minimo\test.html
5. Click 'Go'

Actual Results:  
The GUI switches back to the display page, progress bar appears with 'Attempting
data communication' above it. 

Expected Results:  
Loaded and displayed page

This was running on an iPAQ h6315, ROM rv 1.10.08, OS 4.20.0.3.

I'm not a Pocket PC guy, so maybe I'm just failing to understand how the FS is
laid out, but Doug seemed to think file://\<storage card name>/... should work.
 Files do seem to work, like via resource://...

Comment 1

[John Wolfe (:wolfe)]

Actually, the format of the URI is slightly strange.

For instance, suppose I have a file at \Storage Card\Hello.htm

The URI I want to enter into minimo is:

file:///\Storage Card\Hello.htm

Surprisingly, this URI also seems to work:

file:////Storage Card/Hello.htm


So, the format is:

file:///PATH_SHOWN_IN_ACTIVESYNC_EXPLORE



-- John Wolfe (at Doug Turner's Suggestion)