Closed
Bug 315893
Opened 19 years ago
Closed 16 years ago
On trying to open a malito: link through JavaScript, get an error
Categories
(Firefox :: General, defect)
Tracking
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RESOLVED
WORKSFORME
People
(Reporter: elk, Unassigned)
Details
User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; PPC Mac OS X Mach-O; en-US; rv:1.7.12) Gecko/20050915 Firefox/1.0.7
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; PPC Mac OS X Mach-O; en-US; rv:1.7.12) Gecko/20050915 Firefox/1.0.7
On trying to open a malito: link through JavaScript function
window.location.href = "mailto:User@Domaine";
get error message "mailto is not a registered protocoll" and an error in the javaScript console
Reproducible: Always
Steps to Reproduce:
1. create a HTML file with following content:
<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN"
"http://www.w3.org/TR/html4/loose.dtd">
<html>
<head>
<meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=iso-8859-1">
<title>test mail</title>
<script type="text/javascript" language="javascript">
<!--
function PostTo(User, Domaine) {
window.location.href = "mailto:" + User + "@" + Domaine;
};
//-->
</script>
</head>
<body>
<a href="javascript:PostTo('info','nowhere.org')">mail link using JavaScript</a><br>
<a href="mailto:info@nowhere.org">mail link using mailto:</a>
</body>
</html>
2. Open it in Firefox
3. Click on the first link
Actual Results:
get error message "mailto is not a registered protocoll" and the following in the javaScript console
Error: uncaught exception: [Exception... "Component returned failure code: 0x804b0012 [nsIDOMLocation.href]" nsresult: "0x804b0012 (<unknown>)" location: "JS frame :: file://localhost/thepath/WWW/test-mail.html :: PostTo :: line 11" data: no]
Expected Results:
should have opened the mail programm, as it does on clicking the second link.
Following extensions installed: Forecastfox 0.8.2.1, View dormatted source 0.9.3.4, Html validator (based on Tidy) 0.6.2
the problem does not appear on Firefox 1.0.7 / Windows 2000
Version: unspecified → 1.0 Branch
1. The bug stayed upon deinstallation of all extensions
2. The bug wasn't reproduced on a system with a similar configuration (Firefox 1.0.7 / MacOS X 10.3
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Comment 3•16 years ago
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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)
Status: UNCONFIRMED → RESOLVED
Closed: 16 years ago
Resolution: --- → WORKSFORME
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