Re: Capability of Iceweasel to open a local file.

2011-06-07 Thread Eduardo M KALINOWSKI
On Ter, 07 Jun 2011, Liam O'Toole wrote: The URL file:///~/Category2.html cannot be loaded by iceweasel in my case (iceweasel 4 on squeeze). I only see the message "File not found ... Iceweasel can't find the file at /~/Category2.html." Interestingly, lynx opens the file without grumbling, but th

Re: Re: Capability of Iceweasel to open a local file.

2011-06-06 Thread peasthope
* From: "Carl Fink" * Date: Mon, 6 Jun 2011 12:30:21 -0400 > The first is a valid URL now, if you have a web server on your local box. > The second is not valid under the definition of URLs. My message at Mon, 6 Jun 2011 09:58:42 -0800 corrected the URI to file://localhost/home/pete

Re: Capability of Iceweasel to open a local file.

2011-06-06 Thread Erwan David
On 06/06/11 19:27, peasth...@shaw.ca wrote: > Iceweasel 3.5.16 is working in Squeeze here. Using the menue, > File > Open File, it opens /home/peter/blah.html. The URI > displayed is "file:///home/peter/blah.html". Alternatively, > the file can be opened by typing or pasting that URI into the

Re: Capability of Iceweasel to open a local file.

2011-06-06 Thread Camaleón
On Mon, 06 Jun 2011 09:27:41 -0800, peasthope wrote: > Iceweasel 3.5.16 is working in Squeeze here. Using the menue, File > > Open File, it opens /home/peter/blah.html. The URI displayed is > "file:///home/peter/blah.html". Alternatively, the file can be opened > by typing or pasting that URI i

Re: Capability of Iceweasel to open a local file.

2011-06-06 Thread Carl Fink
On Mon, June 6, 2011 1:27 pm, peasth...@shaw.ca wrote: > There is a third possibility. Suppose there is a Web page containing > a link anchored at either http://localhost/home/peter/blah.html or > http:///home/peter/blah.html. Seems reasonable and straightforward > for this method of opening a