Evolution, Thunderbird and Firefox should follow \\smb links
Affects | Status | Importance | Assigned to | Milestone | |
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Evolution |
New
|
Wishlist
|
|||
Mozilla Firefox |
Won't Fix
|
Wishlist
|
|||
Mozilla Thunderbird |
Invalid
|
Medium
|
|||
evolution (Ubuntu) |
Invalid
|
Low
|
Ubuntu Desktop Bugs | ||
firefox-3.0 (Ubuntu) |
Invalid
|
Low
|
Unassigned | ||
thunderbird (Ubuntu) |
Invalid
|
Low
|
Unassigned |
Bug Description
Emails from windows users in the corporate setting often include links to files on windows servers. Linux users should be able to operate transparently in this space. So in outlook if I drag in a link to a file in an email you get a hyber link like this: "\\servername\
On the composing side if I drag in a link from nautilus I get "smb://
Changed in thunderbird: | |
status: | Unknown → New |
Changed in firefox: | |
status: | Unknown → Won't Fix |
Changed in evolution (Ubuntu): | |
status: | Confirmed → Triaged |
Changed in evolution: | |
status: | Unknown → New |
Changed in thunderbird: | |
status: | New → Invalid |
Changed in evolution: | |
importance: | Unknown → Wishlist |
Changed in firefox: | |
importance: | Unknown → Wishlist |
Changed in thunderbird: | |
importance: | Unknown → Medium |
status: | Invalid → Unknown |
Changed in thunderbird: | |
status: | Unknown → Invalid |
It doesn't work because such a link violates several rfc rules.
"\" is not allowed in an URL, you have no protocol in front.
A correct unc link is for example: file:// ///server/ share/file
makring wontfix