429467 - new Security policy for local files is to strict

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 425201

(Core :: Security, defect)

Description

[Sjoerd Mulder]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.9b5) Gecko/2008032620 Firefox/3.0b5
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.9b5) Gecko/2008032620 Firefox/3.0b5

Currently in Firefox 3 beta 5 it is impossible to do an XMLHttpRequest on another file in the same directory. According to the security.fileuri.strict_origin_policy on Mozillazine (http://kb.mozillazine.org/Security.fileuri.strict_origin_policy) it should be "Local documents have access to other local documents in the same directory and in subdirectories, but not directory listings. (Default)". This is quite annoying for people using the XHR request in local file HTML references for example. (they stop working in FF3)

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Open the attachted testcase
2. See the Javascript error because of the denied XHR.open
3. Change the XHR.open to the second line

Comment 1

[Sjoerd Mulder]

Attachment: Testcase showing the problem