74855 - JavaScript 'window.location=view-source:[url here]' nonfunctional

Status: VERIFIED DUPLICATE of bug 66334

(Core :: Networking, defect)

Description

[Alex Bischoff]

From Bugzilla Helper:
User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; 0.8.1)
BuildID:    2201040404

Using 'window.location=view-source:' in JavaScript doesn't bring up the View
Source window, as it does in both Netscape 4.x and IE.

Reproducible: Always
Steps to Reproduce:
1. View the above url in Netscape 4.x or IE
2. Click the "View Source Code" button
3. Notice that the View Source window is opened
4. Open the url in a recent Mozilla build
5. Repeat step 2 and notice that no View Source window is opened

Actual Results:  Nothing happens.

Expected Results:  The View Source window should have been opened.

The applicable HTML code from the url:
<FORM><INPUT TYPE=button NAME="view" VALUE="View Source Code "
OnClick='window.location="view-source:" +window.location.href'></FORM>

Also, I wasn't sure which Component to assign.

Comment 1

[Tim Powell]

View-source isn't supported at the moment. See bug 15372. I'm not sure if this 
should be made a duplicate of that one, since this is about javascript access 
and it sounds like that one is about typing it in the location/URL box.

I'll confirm this bug. Should it be moved to browser/networking? Or duplicate?

Comment 2

[timeless]

this is a dupe of the we need a view-source: protocol handler bug.

Comment 3

[Asa Dotzler [:asa]]

This used to work.  I will try to find out when it broke.

Comment 4

[Doron Rosenberg (IBM)]

dupe of 66334

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 66334 ***

Comment 5

[benc]

VERIFIED: dupe + wfm