Closed Bug 328919 Opened 20 years ago Closed 20 years ago

Problem opening link to a network drive/share and even local files

Categories

(Firefox :: General, defect)

Product:
Firefox
Component:
General
Platform:
x86
Windows XP
Type:
defect
Priority:
Not set
Severity:
normal

Tracking

()

Status:
RESOLVED INVALID

People

(Reporter: donniegallardo, Unassigned)

Details

User-Agent: Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 7.0; Windows NT 5.1; SV1; .NET CLR 2.0.50215; .NET CLR 1.1.4322) Build Identifier: example web application -> http://localhost/example/hello.htm contains <html> <body> Hello World. Problem 1 - > <a href="\\networkdrive\share" target="_blank">network share</a> Problem 2 - > <a href="file://///networkdrive/share/" target="_blank">network share</a> Problem 3 - > <a href="c:\test.txt" target="_blank">Test File</a> Problem 3 - > <a href="file://c:/test.txt" target="_blank">Test File</a> </body> </html> Scenario.. When trying to open the link of Problem 1 it results to page cannot be found. It translated the href link as http://localhost/example/%5C%5Cnetworkdrive%5Cshare When trying to open the link of Problem 2 nothing happens and when I checked the Javascript console messages it was listed there as Security Error: Content at http://localhost/example/test.htm# may not load or link to file://///networkdrive/share/. When trying to open the link of Problem 3 an alert occurs and then nothing happens. The alert message stated - Firefox doesn't know how to open this address, because the protocol (c) isn't associated with any program. When trying to open the link of Problem 3 nothing happens and when I checked the Javascript console messages it was listed there as Security Error: Content at http://localhost/example/test.htm# may not load or link to file:///c:/test.txt. Expected results. Problem 1 - Link will open and showing the content of the network share Problem 2 - Link will open and showing the content of the network share Problem 3 - Link will open and showing the content of the file Problem 4 - Link will open and showing the content of the file Problem does not occur if you type the link in the address bar. Reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: See Details Actual Results: See Details Expected Results: See Details Open normally.
Status: UNCONFIRMED → RESOLVED
Closed: 20 years ago
Resolution: --- → FIXED
http://kb.mozillazine.org/Links_to_local_pages_don%27t_work (In reply to comment #0) > User-Agent: Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 7.0; Windows NT 5.1; SV1; .NET > CLR 2.0.50215; .NET CLR 1.1.4322) > Build Identifier: > example web application -> http://localhost/example/hello.htm > contains > <html> > <body> > Hello World. > Problem 1 - > <a href="\\networkdrive\share" target="_blank">network share</a> > Problem 2 - > <a href="file://///networkdrive/share/" target="_blank">network > share</a> > Problem 3 - > <a href="c:\test.txt" target="_blank">Test File</a> > Problem 3 - > <a href="file://c:/test.txt" target="_blank">Test File</a> > </body> > </html> > Scenario.. > When trying to open the link of Problem 1 it results to page cannot be found. > It translated the href link as > http://localhost/example/%5C%5Cnetworkdrive%5Cshare > When trying to open the link of Problem 2 nothing happens and when I checked > the Javascript console messages it was listed there as > Security Error: Content at http://localhost/example/test.htm# may not load or > link to file://///networkdrive/share/. > When trying to open the link of Problem 3 an alert occurs and then nothing > happens. > The alert message stated - Firefox doesn't know how to open this address, > because the protocol (c) isn't associated with any program. > When trying to open the link of Problem 3 nothing happens and when I checked > the Javascript console messages it was listed there as > Security Error: Content at http://localhost/example/test.htm# may not load or > link to file:///c:/test.txt. > Expected results. > Problem 1 - Link will open and showing the content of the network share > Problem 2 - Link will open and showing the content of the network share > Problem 3 - Link will open and showing the content of the file > Problem 4 - Link will open and showing the content of the file > Problem does not occur if you type the link in the address bar. > Reproducible: Always > Steps to Reproduce: > See Details > Actual Results: > See Details > Expected Results: > See Details > Open normally.
Status: RESOLVED → UNCONFIRMED
Resolution: FIXED → ---
Status: UNCONFIRMED → RESOLVED
Closed: 20 years ago → 20 years ago
Resolution: --- → INVALID
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