785393 - navigator.mozApps.install(url) does not take a relative reference (no protocol) URL

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 745928

(Core Graveyard :: DOM: Apps, defect)

Description

[nick1presta]

User Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10.8; rv:17.0) Gecko/17.0 Firefox/17.0
Build ID: 20120824030530

Steps to reproduce:

Tried to install a Mozilla App via:

request = navigation.mozApps.install("//path/to/manifest.webapp");
request.onsuccess = function() {
    alert("Yay!");
}
request.onerror = function() {
    alert("Error: " + this.error.name);
}



About:
Firefox 17.0a1
Build identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10.8; rv:17.0) Gecko/17.0 Firefox/17.0


Actual results:

Nothing. No error was presented (see this bug: https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=777121).


Expected results:

I would expect this URL scheme to work. It should be valid, according to section 4.2: http://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc3986.txt

Comment 1

[nick1presta]

Just to add, this may be related to: https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=745928