309320 - cannot load files from a parent directory

Status: RESOLVED WORKSFORME

(Firefox :: File Handling, defect)

Description

[snorth]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 6.0; Windows NT 5.0)
Build Identifier: Firefox 1.0.6

This fails in firefox but works in Netscape and MSIE
<IMG SRC="../picture.jpg">

This works in firefox (but not in Netscape or MSIE)
<IMG SRC="./picture.jpg">

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. see example above
2.
3.

Actual Results:  
using ../ a broken image results

Expected Results:  
../ is the correct syntax not ./

Comment 1

[Peter van der Woude [:Peter6]]

Attachment: testcase

Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:1.8b5) Gecko/20050920
Firefox/1.4 ID:2005092011

WFM

Comment 2

[OstGote!]

WFM Mozilla 1.7.12 / Seamonkey 1.0a on WinXP

Comment 3

[Nancy]

it has never worked and most likly never will

Comment 4

[William Bumgarner [:zsinj]]

testcase no longer works, spam follows

Please use a recent version of Firefox, available at
http://www.mozilla.com/en-US/firefox/, and report back with your results in
relation to this bug report.

If this problem can be reproduced, please reopen this bug report. Due to age/lack of response, closing. (bug cleaning)