Clearly nothing important. MacOS X 10 and MS-DOS have different directory naming conventions. However, your URL should not work on MS-DOS (or Windows). UNIX and its derivatives use forward slashes like this (/) whereas MS-DOS and its derivatives use back slashes like this (\\).
If you don't put that third slash (it's not "file:///[whatever]"... when was the last time you saw "http:///"?), it brought me right to the the root of the hard drive.
They should disallow access to the filesystem via file:// once the browser has been used in a http:// session. If browsers want to use file:// there should be some prerequisite authentication of some kind.
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2004-05-30 11:32:05.216 Camino[2097] JS error: Security Error: Content at http://forums.appleinsider.com/showt...threadid=42557 may not load or link to file:///C:/.
No file exists at the address ?/C:?.
Originally posted by MCQ
Well, since I don't believe OS X recognizes a file URI...
Is that some religious thing? 'Cos the reality is, of course, somewhat different.
Originally posted by psgamer0921
Out of curiousity, what would happen if you click a link to file:///C:/? Like this:
Click here
Clearly nothing important. MacOS X 10 and MS-DOS have different directory naming conventions. However, your URL should not work on MS-DOS (or Windows). UNIX and its derivatives use forward slashes like this (/) whereas MS-DOS and its derivatives use back slashes like this (\\).
Originally posted by psgamer0921
Out of curiousity, what would happen if you click a link to file:///C:/? Like this:
Click here
Well I'll be....
If you don't put that third slash (it's not "file:///[whatever]"... when was the last time you saw "http:///"?), it brought me right to the the root of the hard drive.
Try it.
Originally posted by Phroggy
Well I'll be....
If you don't put that third slash (it's not "file:///[whatever]"... when was the last time you saw "http:///"?)
Actually, it is.
file://<filepath>
http://<webpath>
A webpath starts with the server name: www.apple.com/macosx/
A filepath starts with a slash: /Applications/Utilities/
Triple slash is correct for file URIs.
(Since a link wont work, just paste
file:///C\
into the address bar)
Eg. file:///Applications/
Maybe a further sign of Finder/ Safari integration? Interesting that Camino can't do this, but Mozilla can.