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Ah yes, thank you. It really is that simple: 6.6. Applications/Protocols That Use This URI Scheme Name Web browsers: Firefox Note: Firefox has a unique inter
by sillysaurus3 9y ago
Ah yes, thank you. It really is that simple:
6.6. Applications/Protocols That Use This URI Scheme Name
Web browsers:
Firefox
Note: Firefox has a unique interpretation of RFC 1738 (See: Bugzilla#107540), which affects UNC paths.
See Bugzilla#107540 from 16 years ago:
https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=107540 https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=107540
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If url format is file:////servername/dir/file.html Mozilla does not navigate to
the link. This format works in IE5.
Reproducible: Always
Steps to Reproduce:
1. Put url in page - format file:////servername/dir/file.html
2. Try to navigage to link
3.
Actual Results: Nothing
Expected Results: It should have opened link
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reply from Neil Becker:
We have many links on our internal company website using the
file:////server/a/b/c/ convention to access files on our network drives.
mozilla seems to want file:///// (5 slashes) but IE and even the old netscape
accept 4 slashes.
It seems that to access a local file, if you write file://D:/qtdocs/classes.html
for instance, (2 slashes) mozilla automatically changes it to 3. so... when a
link specifies FOUR slashes for a UNC name, it would make sense if mozilla would
either expand it to FIVE slashes and check it like that, or accept the 4 slashes.
In our company's opinion, this is a bug, not a feature... It's a bug that'll
cause us to not use mozilla and instead use IE or another browser than can do
the file:////server/a/b/c links. it doesn't seem to be hard to fix - if there's
four slashes in the link, change it to 5 and try it. just like you change 2
slashes into 3 for a local hard drive file. cmon!
I would really like to see this bugfix in the mozilla 1.0 release. this is NOT
a duplicate bug (i checked the others that are claimed to be a dupe and its
not). so would someone please fix this?????
thanks.