294856 - Unable to visit file:/// links to a network drive from a http:// page

Status: VERIFIED DUPLICATE of bug 122022

(Firefox :: General, defect)

Description

[bugjirra]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.7.7) Gecko/20050414 Firefox/1.0.3
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:1.7.8) Gecko/20050511 Firefox/1.0.4

Nothing happens when I click on a file:/// link to non-HTML documents on a
network drive within a HTML 4.01 Strict page served from a webserver.

Source URL: (internal only) http://fg-statmon01/wrl/index.php?page=19
Target URLs: file:///L|/Workpapers/Cover Page.dot
             file:///L:/Workpapers/Cover Page.dot

I am unable to test this with links to local (non-network drives); and the URL
format is as per RFC2396.

Are there any security settings or such that relate to linking to file:/// URLs
from http:// addresses? Could not find anything in about:config.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Visit page containing link to the URL
2. Click on link
3. Nothing happens

Actual Results:  
Nothing. Webpage stayed the same; no hourglass cursor; no dialog with file
open/save options; page stayed navigable as if the link was to # or
javascript:void().

Expected Results:  
Opened a dialog box to save or open the linked document

The target path (L:) is mapped to \\fg-fp01\accounting

Comment 1

[bugjirra]

Attachment: Test page that links to the documents

This is one of the pages that fail to link to the documents.

Comment 2

[djpohly]

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 122022 ***