Title	Links to filesystem doesn't work
Date	15-Jan-2007 11:04:42 EET
Version	v2.4.87
Submitter	NikolajPedersen
Bug criticality	LightBug
Browser version	Opera 9.02/Internet Explorer 7/Firefox 1.5.0.9
Bug status	NotABug
PageProvider used
Servlet Container	Tomcat 5.5.17
Operating System	Windows XP SP2
URL	http://sandbox.jspwiki.org/Wiki.jsp?page=Testpage1
Java version	1.4.2_11-b06

When I create a link to a file in the filesystem like this: [Test|file:///d:/testfile.txt] it translates to <a class="external" href="file:///d:/testfile.txt">Test</a> which seems correct and if I put this in a seperate standalone html page it works fine. But it doesn't seem to work from inside the wiki. -- NikolajPedersen

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This actually isn't a bug in JSPWiki -- it's due to a security policy in more recent versions of web browsers. By default, the file:/// protocol won't work when used on a HTML page opened from a web server.

For more info, see MSIE and Mozilla/Firefox

--David Au, 20-Mar-2007