363645 - Drag-drop of .url onto the content area downloads file instead of loading url

Status: RESOLVED WORKSFORME

(Core :: Widget: Cocoa, defect)

Description

[Smokey Ardisson (offline for a while; not following bugs - do not email)]

We pretty much handle .url (IE shortcuts) files the same as we do weblocs, except that when you drag a .url to the content area, we download the file again instead of loading the page it references.

Wevah said this used to work (and may have broken at the same time as bug 173658).

Comment 1

[Smokey Ardisson (offline for a while; not following bugs - do not email)]

Mass un-setting milestone per 1.6 roadmap.

Filter on RemoveRedonkulousBuglist to remove bugspam.

Developers: if you have a patch in hand for one of these bugs, you may pull the bug back to 1.6 *at that point*.

Comment 2

[Chris Lawson (gone)]

Can someone attach a testcase .url file here? I don't believe I have any good way of creating these myself.

Comment 3

[Smokey Ardisson (offline for a while; not following bugs - do not email)]

Attachment: collection of .url files

Well, besides MacIE, there are also dozens of AppleScripts to do it :P  But here's a collection I've accumulated in the process of testing previous Camino .url bugs and my own URL<->Webloc scripts (http://www.ardisson.org/smokey/moz/).

Comment 4

[philippe (part-time)]

You can download IE Mac from the Evolt archive and create as much .url's as needed.
http://browsers.evolt.org/?ie/mac/5.2.3_OS_X

Comment 5

[Chris Lawson (gone)]

I *highly* suspect this was another side effect of bug 332913. The fact that Firefox 3 also attempts to download the .url file rather than opening it pretty much confirms that, IMO. Kicking to Widget:Cocoa.

Comment 6

[Chris Lawson (gone)]

Presumably the same strategy that fixed bug 358340 could be used here, though I'm not sure what MIME type .url files are supposed to be.

Comment 7

[Smokey Ardisson (offline for a while; not following bugs - do not email)]

Firefox has no Wevahcode to handle/parse .url files, so they'd definitely be downloading it regardless.

Comment 8

[Michelle Funches - QA]

Cannot reproduce: 
Version 	49.0a1
Build ID 	20160527125000
User Agent 	Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10.11; rv:49.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/49.0