Closed Bug 315003 Opened 19 years ago Closed 19 years ago

Firefox does not fully implement RFC 1738

Categories

(Firefox :: File Handling, defect)

Product:
Firefox
Component:
File Handling
Platform:
x86
Windows XP
Type:
defect
Priority:
Not set
Severity:
minor

Tracking

()

Status:
RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 70871

People

(Reporter: spikes.phone_0t, Unassigned)

Details

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.8) Gecko/20051025 Firefox/1.5
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.8) Gecko/20051025 Firefox/1.5

According to RFC 1738 §3.10, file URLs are of the form “file://host/path”. Both Opera and Internet Explorer treat this as the UNC path “\\host\path”, but Firefox requires “file://///host/path” instead.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. enter a UNC path as a file URL

Actual Results:  
Nothing happens, at all.

Expected Results:  
Firefox should behave as the “file://///…” case, opening the file (or failing if it does not exist, etc).

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 70871 ***
Status: UNCONFIRMED → RESOLVED
Closed: 19 years ago
Resolution: --- → DUPLICATE
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