77065 - File: Open Web Location No "file not found" for local file URLs

Status: VERIFIED DUPLICATE of bug 63048

(Core :: Networking: File, defect)

Description

[gekacheka]

From Bugzilla Helper:
User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; 0.8.1) Gecko/20010323
BuildID:    2001032319

When a local file URL is followed but not found,
Mozilla mysteriously does nothing.  
Other browsers put up a "file not found" confirmation dialog.

Reproducible: Always
Steps to Reproduce:
1. File | Open Web Location
2. file://c:/nonexistent.html  (or appropriate path for your platform)

Actual Results:  The dialog goes away and nothing else happens.

Expected Results:  Some indication that the file was not found.
Both IE5 and NN4.7 pop up an error dialog when a local file URL is not found.
(Maybe Mozilla is expecting the server to return an error page, but there is
none... :)

I originally ran into the problem from a bookmark to a local file which no
longer existed, so it is not only a problem with the dialog.  The "file not
found" message should apply whenever a local file URL is opened.

Comment 1

[HJ]

dup of bug 76434 "local file needs to give error message when file not found"

Comment 2

[Andreas M. "Clarence" Schneider]

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 19073 ***

Comment 3

[benc]

REOPEN:
really a dupe of bug 63048 (b/c I it is fixed in Mozilla 0.9.5 per dougt's 
comments about trunk fixing after 0.9.4 branch).

Comment 4

[benc]

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 63048 ***

Comment 5

[benc]

VERIFIED:
file: URL cleanup.