322502 - will not open files/documents on local (mounted) drives that it would open in prior versions

Status: RESOLVED INVALID

(Firefox :: File Handling, defect)

Description

[Octaviano Ledesma]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.8) Gecko/20051111 Firefox/1.5
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.8) Gecko/20051111 Firefox/1.5

the link (on a wiki page) points to a file on a mounted drive
when I click the link, get a brief (1 sec) pause, then nothing

other users at work did not have this problem - they were on a prior version (1.0.7 I think)
they upgraded to 1.5 and are now experiencing the same problem


Reproducible: Always

Comment 1

[Octaviano Ledesma]

apparently fat fingered the commit button
I checked security.checkloaduri and it was already set to false

Comment 2

[Travis Winfrey]

I'm a co-worker of the guy who posted this.  Two other co-workers here
also experienced this bug only after they upgraded to 1.5.  I haven't
marked this as a confirmed bug, however, because conceivably it has to do 
with our environment.

The two original links followed on the wiki page were of the form:

   file://///moe/tech/projects/A/R/2/R.doc
   file://///moe/tech/projects/A/R/2/

Neither one worked: clicking them does nothing.  we all have security.checkloaduri set to false.

If you enter the full url

    \\moe\tech\Projects\A\R\2\R.doc

then it -does- work.  (Note the URL on this bug is wrong, then).  

Alternatively, if you start off with

    \\moe 

as the url, it is rewritten to 

    file://///moe/

Then you can navigate down through the assorted directories.  With
that sequence of operations, the two URLs works fine, both for the
directory and the .doc file.  The succeeding and failing URLs appear
identical to me, and I've compared them byte by byte using M-x ediff.

Here is the result of view-source on the directory, modified only by indentation


    300: file://///moe/tech/projects/Airline_Projects/Retail_Parity/
    200: filename content-length last-modified file-type
    201: 1_Conceive_Scope_%26_Schedules 0 Wed,%2028%20Dec%202005%2001:12:04%20GMT DIRECTORY 
    201: 2_Functional_Design 0 Thu,%2005%20Jan%202006%2022:39:22%20GMT DIRECTORY 
    201: 3_Technical_Design_%26_Development 0 Mon,%2005%20Dec%202005%2022:52:30%20GMT DIRECTORY 
    201: 4_Testing_%26_Deployment 0 Tue,%2023%20Aug%202005%2020:55:48%20GMT DIRECTORY 
    201: 5_Reference_Documentation 0 Tue,%2029%20Nov%202005%2001:17:37%20GMT DIRECTORY 
    201: 6_CE_Files_%26_Documents 0 Tue,%2023%20Aug%202005%2020:55:48%20GMT DIRECTORY 

Comment 3

[OstGote!]

This old pref does not work anymore with FF 1.5/SM 1.0, see Bug 307382. You have now to use a site specific pref, see http://kb.mozillazine.org/Links_to_local_pages_don%27t_work#Firefox_1.5.2C_Mozilla_1.8.2C_and_newer

Comment 4

[OstGote!]

So this is invalid. If this is not your issue, feel free to reopen.