- From: Dan Veditz <dveditz@mozilla.com>
- Date: Tue, 13 Nov 2012 08:04:16 -0800
- To: whatwg@lists.whatwg.org
On 10/31/12 7:38 AM, Benjamin Smedberg wrote: > On 10/30/2012 7:41 PM, João Eiras wrote: >> >> >> I currently do not have Windows to test but I think I recall IE (or >> Opera?) opening file://server/share if there was a network share at >> \\server\share > Firefox has considered and rejected that kind of proposal for security > reasons. I can't find the bug right now, but I suspect that we would not > implement that feature even if it were specced. On Windows Firefox file:////server/path works, though. After the initial two slashes are satisfied we take "//server/path" as the path and hand it off to the OS which happily treats that as a UNC path. -Dan Veditz
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