354154 - Remote opening of local file no longer works.

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 301923

(SeaMonkey :: General, defect)

Description

[Craig McCluskey]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686 (x86_64); en-US; rv:1.8.0.7) Gecko/20060910 SeaMonkey/1.0.5
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686 (x86_64); en-US; rv:1.8.0.7) Gecko/20060910 SeaMonkey/1.0.5

In mozilla 1.7.12, the command

   mozilla -remote 'openURL(~cwmccluskey/zz.html, new-tab)'

opens the local file zz.html in a new browser tab.

One would expect that with SeaMonkey, the command

   seamonkey -remote 'openURL(~cwmccluskey/zz.html, new-tab)'

would do the same thing. One would be wrong. What actually happens is:

   seamonkey -remote 'openURL(<path-to-file>/zz.html, new-tab)'
   Error: Failed to send command: 509 internal error

Even following the different syntax on http://kb.mozillazine.org/Make_external_programs_in_Linux_use_the_right_browser
has the same result of a 509 internal error.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Open SeaMonkey
2. From a command line, execute the command
      seamonkey -remote 'openURL(<path-to-file>/zz.html, new-tab)'
Actual Results:  
Get error message, "Error: Failed to send command: 509 internal error"

Expected Results:  
Opened the local file as Mozilla 1.7.12 does.

Comment 1

[Andrew Schultz]

I have to guess that you're actually talking about full pathnames and not ~user (which has never worked).  You're hitting bug 301923.  You need to use a file URL to make xremote happy, file:///home/cmccluskey/zz.html).  With 1.1 or trunk, you can use the included startup script and it will turn the file path to a file URL for you.

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 301923 ***

Comment 2

[Craig McCluskey]

Yes, you are correct in assuming I was talking about full pathnames. What has appeared on the bug was not what I typed (or at least, intended to type), since /home/cmccluskey is not the path to my home directory. What I thought I had typed was: seamonkey -remote 'openURL(<path-to-file>/zz.html, new-tab)'

Anyway, using: seamonkey -remote 'openURL(file://<path-to-file>/zz.html, new-tab)' does work.

Thanks,

Craig