On Wed, Oct 31, 2012 at 3:38 PM, Benjamin Smedberg <benja...@smedbergs.us> 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.
Just to be clear, the proposal does not require you to implement that feature (that would be processing of a parsed file: URL, which is undefined), but it does require you to preserve the host name (which you are free to ignore or treat as a network error). -- http://annevankesteren.nl/