Firefox: open file, security problem

il_betto · September 21st, 2009, 06:21 AM

Hi to All,
I have this problem:

with IE I can open a file 1.txt with the code posted, but with FF 3.5.2 it happens nothing and in the console error appears the message:

Security problem: the contents in http://fwws01329528/test.asp (the name of the server and the page loaded) can' t load or have links that cross-refer to file://///sif5/tmp/1.txt

In which way it' s possible to solve the problem ??

Thanks a lot in advance !!!

html>

<head>
<title>TEST</title>
<Script Language="JavaScript">
function notify(n) {
if (n==1) {
window.open('file://///sif5/tmp/1.txt'); }
}
</script>
</head>

<body>

<div align="center">
<table>
<tr>
<form method="POST" webbot-onSubmit language="JavaScript" name="FrontPage_Form2">
<td width="243"
style="border-left-style:none; border-left-width:medium; border-right-style:solid; border-right-width:1; border-top-style:solid; border-top-width:1; "
height="39">
<input type="submit" style="width:66px;" value="Appr" name="Send" onClick="notify(1)">
</td>
</tr>
</form></table>
</div>

</body>
</html>

Old Pedant · September 21st, 2009, 04:03 PM

Well, not to ask a dumbass question, but why do you care??

This page is never going to run on any machine except the one you are using now (or some other machine on your same inTRAnet), so just be happy using MSIE. Incidentally, I think that even MSIE 8 (and maybe 7) would complain in the same way, until/unless you manually lowered your security settings.

il_betto · September 23rd, 2009, 04:08 AM

Working only in Intranet,
with an external help I solved my problem:

using javascript sintax for:
window.open http://server_name/path_name/file_name.txt

I have created inside IIS a virtual directory with an alias,
and in this way I can see, as part of the server, a remote machine directory with inside the files.txt that I want to recall with IE and FF ...

Old Pedant · September 23rd, 2009, 07:11 PM

Nice solution!

Much better then using file:// in any case.