Public bug reported:
file:/ URLs are not suported (... instead it passes it on to google when
entered into URL bar, or raises a "network error" when followed from a
page)
Being able to browser local html pages would be handy to work around bug
#1516220 (lack of form completion or password manager), because that way
could could store pre-filled forms somewhere on your home directory.
Well it is still possible to pull of this workaround, but it requires
installing nginx (... and configuring it correctly to prevent people on
the same Wifi from snarfing your password-containing templates...)
phablet@ubuntu-phablet:~/public_html$ lsb_release -rd
Description: Ubuntu 15.04
Release: 15.04
phablet@ubuntu-phablet:~/public_html$ apt-cache policy webbrowser-app
webbrowser-app:
Installed: 0.23+15.04.20151103-0ubuntu1
Candidate: 0.23+15.04.20151103-0ubuntu1
Version table:
*** 0.23+15.04.20151103-0ubuntu1 0
1001
http://ppa.launchpad.net/ci-train-ppa-service/stable-snapshot/ubuntu/
vivid/main armhf Packages
100 /var/lib/dpkg/status
0.23+15.04.20150416-0ubuntu1 0
500 http://ports.ubuntu.com/ubuntu-ports/ vivid/main armhf Packages
What I expected to happen:
Visiting file:/ should show me a directory view of the root directory of the
device
What happened instead:
The phone passed the string file:/ on to google... D'oh... :-(
** Affects: webbrowser-app (Ubuntu)
Importance: Undecided
Status: New
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