Bug 526454

Summary: Seamonkey should check if its command line parameter is a local file
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4 Reporter: Radek Bíba <rbiba>
Component: seamonkeyAssignee: Martin Stransky <stransky>
Status: CLOSED WONTFIX QA Contact: Ben Levenson <benl>
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Version: 4.8CC: stransky
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Description Radek Bíba 2009-09-30 11:29:45 UTC 
Description of problem:
I have a file called startHere.htm in my working directory, and I wanted to look at it in Seamonkey. So I ran:

$ seamonkey startHere.htm

and expected the browser to load this file. However, it took the parameter as an address and tried to load http://www.starthere.htm. I tried again with file://`pwd`/startHere.htm, and this worked. But that's pretty annoying.

Then I wanted to display a file called license_en.html in directory javacomm/en/sdk/. I thought - ok, maybe the slashes will make Seamonkey take the parameter as a path to a file. However, it tried to loaded http://www.javacomm.com/en/sdk/license_en.html.

Could Seamonkey check if the parameter is a local file and load it if it is? That's what Firefox, Konqueror and possibly other usual browsers do.

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):
seamonkey-1.0.9-48.el4_8
Comment 2 RHEL Program Management 2010-02-10 06:58:13 UTC 
This request was evaluated by Red Hat Product Management for inclusion in a Red
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inclusion in a Red Hat Enterprise Linux Update release for currently deployed
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Comment 4 RHEL Program Management 2010-03-30 07:11:46 UTC 
Product Management has reviewed and declined this request.  You may appeal this
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