379337 - Does not recognize UNC Paths as links in Windows

Status: RESOLVED WONTFIX

(Firefox :: Shell Integration, enhancement)

Description

[Anar Aliyev]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 6.0; Windows NT 5.1; SV1; .NET CLR 1.1.4322; .NET CLR 2.0.50727; .NET CLR 3.0.04506.30)
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.8.1.3) Gecko/20070309 Firefox/2.0.0.3

Does not recognize links on a page like \\servername\sharename\filename 
Such links often encountered on intranet web-sites, and are recognized by IE

Tries to append domain name in the front of the link

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Make <a href="\\server\share\file">Test</a> on a test page
2. Open the page in Firefox and try to follow the link

Actual Results:  
Page not found in response

Expected Results:  
Open a file or folder

Copy the beahviour of Internet Explorer

Comment 1

[Matthias Versen [:Matti]]

It doesn't work because such a link violates several rfc rules.
"\" is not allowed in an URL, you have no protocol in front.

A correct unc link is for example: file://///server/share/file

makring wontfix