file://foo always goes to the root dir

[Matt Thompson]

Binary package hint: firefox

In firefox if file://anythingatall is typed into the address bar the root directory is shown.

To see for yourself:

 * Open firefox
 * Type file:// into the address bar followed by anything you want.
 * Press enter or click the little arrow to the right of the address bar.
 * Observe you root directory in all its rooty goodness.

I've tested this in Edgy Firefox 2.0.0.1, so I can't vouch for any other versions.

Matt

[Nafallo Bjälevik (nafallo)]

Confirmed on Epiphany in feisty.

[Freddy Martinez (freddymartinez9)]

I can confirm this on Edgy with Fx 2.0, however I think this may be a feature to let you see your file, can you alter the root files in any ways?

[Matt Thompson (mattthompson)]

Thanks Christian and Freddy, :).

I can't edit anything, it just lets me browse the directory.

To me this seems like a kind of bad way of going about it, maybe it would be better if firefox (or epiphany) told us that the file wasn't there, and asked us if we wanted to find it. That might be better.

[jcfp (jcfp)]

In addition, when typing something like:
"file://" + [anything not starting with "/"] + "/some_existing_dir"
the user ends up in /some_existing_dir; so with "file://foobar/etc", firefox shows you index of /etc but claims that it is the "Index of file://foobar/etc" (which doesn't exist).

When using a full path though (starting the middle part with "/", like in "file:///foobar/etc"), an error is shown as one would expect all along.

Also, when typing "file://" by itself (so without actually specifying any file or directory at all), firefox redirects to "file:///" (note the third /) and shows a file listing of the root dir.

[Freddy Martinez (freddymartinez9)]

Yes, I can confirm all of these. Does anyone know about different releases (I can verify on Edgy, what about Dapper/Feisty etc.)

[Brian Murray (brian-murray)]

Confirmed on Feisty using version 2.0.0.2+1-0ubuntu1.

[Alexander Sack (asac)]

Can anyone confirm this bug exists in upstream builds?

[Rolf Leggewie (r0lf)]

Hi, your original report was against the edgy distribution.
I was wondering if you are still experiencing this issue.
edgy support is being end-of-lifed.

http://www.ubuntu.com/news/ubuntu610end-of-life

[Rolf Leggewie (r0lf)]

FWIW, this does not occur for me in FF3 on hardy

[jcfp (jcfp)]

All of it still present in ff3b5 on kubuntu hardy.

[Alexander Sack (asac)]

On Tue, Apr 29, 2008 at 06:51:18PM -0000, jcfp wrote:
> All of it still present in ff3b5 on kubuntu hardy.
>

 affects ubuntu/firefox-3.0
 status confirmed

 affects ubuntu/firefox
 status wontfix

 - Alexander

[Pablo Castellano (pablocastellano)]

Still present in Intrepid Beta.

[Charlie Kravetz (cjkgeek)]

I can confirm this in Xubuntu Jaunty 9.04

apt-cache policy firefox
firefox:
  Installed: 3.0.10+nobinonly-0ubuntu0.9.04.1
  Candidate: 3.0.10+nobinonly-0ubuntu0.9.04.1
  Version table:
 *** 3.0.10+nobinonly-0ubuntu0.9.04.1 0
        500 http://us.archive.ubuntu.com jaunty-updates/main Packages
        500 http://security.ubuntu.com jaunty-security/main Packages
        100 /var/lib/dpkg/status
     3.0.8+nobinonly-0ubuntu3 0
        500 http://us.archive.ubuntu.com jaunty/main Packages

Typing file://usr or file://usr/ will give the root directory; typing file://usr/share will give file not found error

[John Vivirito (gnomefreak)]

This bug is not triaged since there has been no comments on what the next step is. Please do not mark bugs triaged just because you can confirm it.