file: Protocol / URI scheme.
Teodor Väänänen <[email protected]>
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As many here might know, the state of the file: URI scheme in firefox leaves much to be desired. I ran into the problem trying to develop web pages, realizing I'd probably have to switch to LINUX to be able to have the pages I'm trying to write function properly both locally and over http: because of the hassle it is under Win2k (and probably WinXP and WinVista & Win7 as well). So my questions are: * When is the issue to be resolved? * Is there an addon which might be used to make file: links function properly (not just from the address bar but by clicking on links in a document)? And my suggestions for a solution of the issue are: * in case of a file://<host>/<path> URI, treat it like a UNC (i.e. same functionality one nowadays has with file://///<host>/<path>). * in case of a file:///<path> or file://localhost/<path> URI, treat it like today. This has the bonus that it would be compatible wrt. file:///// links today. * making the new behaviour dependent on a setting in about:config, so the end users can be able to either disable or enable it. * other things that could be user configurable are what hosts (if any) may be allowed in the <host> path of the uri. More suggestions and/or questions? /T. -- Teodor Väänänen | Don't meddle in the affairs of wizards, <[email protected]> | for you are good and crunchy with http://www.algonet.se/~teodor/ | ketchup. Remove stupidity to reply. |