Closed Bug 378971 Opened 17 years ago Closed 3 years ago

Use system default ftp handler, where present

Categories

(Firefox :: File Handling, enhancement, P3)

PowerPC
macOS
enhancement

Tracking

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RESOLVED WORKSFORME
Future

People

(Reporter: mozilla, Unassigned)

References

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Details

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; Intel Mac OS X; en-US; rv:1.8.1.3) Gecko/20070309 Firefox/2.0.0.3
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; Intel Mac OS X; en-US; rv:1.8.1.3) Gecko/20070309 Firefox/2.0.0.3

Assumed: an FTP client, e.g. Fetch, is preferred FTP app
Helpful: More Internet to set/check helper settings
Test URL: website with FTP link(s), e.g. http://www.ftpproxy.org/

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1 Launch app
2 Open test URL
3 Click download FTP link
Actual Results:  
Opens in Firefox instead of specified FTP client

Expected Results:  
Opens in specified FTP client

First noticed in 1.5.0.4
Version: unspecified → 1.5.0.x Branch
Test system: 10.4.9 8P2137, iMac Intel Core Duo/1.83G
See the Camino bug for this, bug 308758.

Mozilla browsers have never done that and I'm pretty sure this is a dupe of an existing WF bug which I can't find right now...
Whiteboard: DUPEME
Version: 1.5.0.x Branch → Trunk
-Unable to find a dupe after extensive searching...
-Removing dupeme, changing component, and confirming as a feature request.
-Would this be able to be handled by an extension?


Severity: minor → enhancement
Status: UNCONFIRMED → NEW
Component: General → OS Integration
Ever confirmed: true
QA Contact: general → os.integration
Whiteboard: DUPEME
Weird that there's not a dupe. Also see bug 308758 which is Camino-specific.
This bug is different in that typically Mozilla has always handled ftp:// URIs. Even if the content handling UI is simplified, a conscious decision would have to be made to allow FTP links to be handed off to the default system app.
It would be interesting to know whether other browsers (especially Safari in both Tiger & pre-release Leopard) typically hand off FTP URIs.
(In reply to comment #8)
> It would be interesting to know whether other browsers (especially Safari in
> both Tiger & pre-release Leopard) typically hand off FTP URIs.

Safari hands of FTP links to the default OS handler on both 10.4 and 10.5 beta.
Still busted: 3.0rc3, 10.5.3 9D34, iMac Core Duo/1.83G
Safari 3.1.1 passes the FTP URL to Fetch
Ironically, since I don't have an ftp client configured on this Mac, Safari opens ftp links in Firefox.

Still, we should probably figure this out.  How is this configured on Mac?
Priority: -- → P3
Summary: App does not respect system prefs ftp protocol helper setting → Use system default ftp handler, where present
Target Milestone: --- → Future
Note: the shell integration component consists of bugs for Firefox's integration with the shell. This bug is about how we handle urls so it is misfiled and won't be fixed in
http://mxr.mozilla.org/mozilla-central/source/browser/components/shell/

Not sure if file handling is the right component but it is definitely closer than shell integration so moving.
Component: Shell Integration → File Handling
Oddly enough it turns out that it's a good thing this bug hasn't been fixed because it helps protect users from a potential remote-code-exploit:

https://www.taoeffect.com/blog/2016/01/sky-not-falling-sparklegate-not-as-bad-as-it-could-be/

FTP support has been removed, so we will now delegate to the OS FTP handler.

(In reply to Greg from comment #13)

Oddly enough it turns out that it's a good thing this bug hasn't been fixed
because it helps protect users from a potential remote-code-exploit:

https://www.taoeffect.com/blog/2016/01/sky-not-falling-sparklegate-not-as-
bad-as-it-could-be/

Hopefully things are better on OSX by now 🙂

Status: NEW → RESOLVED
Closed: 3 years ago
Resolution: --- → WORKSFORME
See Also: → kill-ftp
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