88293 - file:// URLs w/ UNCs do not work

Status: VERIFIED WONTFIX

(Core :: Networking: File, defect)

Description

[Stephen Moehle]

Mozilla will not load a file:// URL that has a UNC path. The URL can be a link
on a web page or type in to the Location (URL) bar.  Mozilla silently fails.  No
error messages are displayed nor is there any errors in the JavaScript console
nor is anything written to stderr. An example of a URL that will not work is
file:////mymachine/public/index.html. Such UNC file URLs work fine with both NN4
and IE5, and I am almost absolutely positive that this worked with earlier
versions of Mozilla as well.

To reproduce:
1) Type a valid file:// URL with a UNC path in the Location bar.
2) Press return.  Nothing happens.

Tested with Mozilla trunk build 2001062804 on Win2000.

Comment 1

[Doug Turner (:dougt)]

Try file://///mymachine/public/index.html

Comment 2

[Aaron Kaluszka]

This would be nice for 4xp/compatibility sake.

Comment 3

[benc]

REOPEN: this sounds like a real problem to me.

Comment 4

[David Illsley]

This looks like its covered by bug 101953

You can reopen if you disagree

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 101953 ***

Comment 5

[benc]

Nope. need this to stay separate. The idea is to have all broken feature point
to the bug via a "depends on", so that we can check out each problem one by one.

Comment 6

[Matthias Versen [:Matti]]

confirming...

Comment 7

[Doug Turner (:dougt)]

windows 2k.  what system are you using?

Comment 8

[Matthias Versen [:Matti]]

Doug T:

win2k build 20011008.. (10min old CVS)

NS4.78:
file://laptopw2k/c/test.txt                            works
file://///laptopw2k/c/test.txt will be converted to :
file:////laptopw2k/c/test.txt                          and works 

Mozilla:
file://laptopw2k/c/test.txt                             doesn't work
file:////laptopw2k/c/test.txt                           doesn't work
file://///laptopw2k/c/test.txt                          works

This can't be worksforme. 
This is invalid/wontfix or a dupe or a real bug.

Comment 9

[Doug Turner (:dougt)]

Hi Matti:

Mozilla:
file://laptopw2k/c/test.txt                             doesn't work
file:////laptopw2k/c/test.txt                           doesn't work

the above two are invalid URI's.  The 4.x handling behavior, if applied to
mozilla has extraordinary performance problems.

so, I guess, I should just mark this as wontfix?

thanks.

Comment 10

[Matthias Versen [:Matti]]

Dougt: 
Sorry for that SPAM but I want only be sure that this bug is wontfix.
(and the reporter should know why this bug is wontfix...)

Thanks !

verified wontfix (Benc: please don't kill me for that  :-)

Comment 11

[Matthias Versen [:Matti]]

*** Bug 289302 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***