[Mediawiki-l] Links to files

[Charlie Markwick]

Does anyone have any idea why just the wiki is preventing local files
from being opened?
 

-----Original Message-----
Sent: 02 November 2007 05:47
To: 'MediaWiki announcements and site admin list'
Subject: RE: [MediaWiki-l] Links to files

I read these, and as mentioned applied the suggested Firefox Add On
found at the link on
"http://kb.mozillazine.org/Firefox_:_Issues_:_Links_to_Local_Pages_Don't
_Work". 

My point is that I don't think it is this. As I mentioned in my follow
up post, I did cut out the link from the Wiki source and embed it in a
test HTM page and Firefox worked fine opening the local resource. It
seems that local links only fail to work in Wiki pages now. Why/how is
the Wiki limiting this functionality?
 

-----Original Message-----
From: mediawiki-l-bounces at lists.wikimedia.org
[mailto:mediawiki-l-bounces at lists.wikimedia.org] On Behalf Of Platonides
Sent: 01 November 2007 21:19
To: mediawiki-l at lists.wikimedia.org
Subject: Re: [MediaWiki-l] Links to files


It's explained on the extension page: 
http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:FileProtocolLinks#Limitations


It's a security feature of Firefox. Web pages have nothing to do eith
your local files:
http://kb.mozillazine.org/Links_to_local_pages_do_not_work