Entering an URL like file://server/directory/page.htm in the location and search field has the following result: The URL is changed to file://server///directory/page.htm This page can not be found, but no error is given. The browser window content does not change. This works with Netscape 4.7x. Mozilla Build ID 2000101014

Confirmed on Win2k using trunk build 200011508.

The file url can have a server, but it is very unlikely since it is a local protocol. Without a server a file url usually looks like this: file:///... If you really want a server like localhost or something similar in your URL it is parsed out and then ignored, because it is local. If you want an UNC-Filepath, the name says it all. This is a path thing, the remote server is part of the path, the urls look like this: file:///server/path or file:////server/path or even file://///server/path. An UNC filepath that looks like file://server/path is not longer supported, instead the parser trys to patch up the url, ignoring the server and then fixing the path into an UNC file path because it failed to detect a drivename (on XP_PC only).

*** Bug 73003 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

Is this bug about having a URI protocol scheme to browse network computers?

->dougt you recently fixed this, right?

no, I did not fix this particular problem(?). Based on Andreas's comments, I don't this this is a bug. Marking WONTFIX. Please reopen if I have missed something.

+testcase - I think it should do something else, but I'll test first and type later.

V/wontfix. This interpretation would conflict w/ valid file URLs.

REOPEN: whopps, mis-read problem description. The bug was saying that this fixup occurred, and it shouldn't. This probably did happen a long time ago (Henrik confirmed), but it doesn't happen anymore, hasn't happened for a long time.

RESOLVED/FIXED. This form of fixup requested here is undesirable, and was removed by someone at some point.

0.o Verified

No patch / bug referenced as the fix. ->WORKSFORME

V/wfm. Sure I can do that. This is really location bar anyhow.