Local images on FF

corblimey

I'm developing a site and as part of it, I'm uploading images using a homegrown php uploader. It saves my images to a certain directory, in this case c:\myimages\. This works fine on the upload, but only IE shows the resulting image when working on http://localhost/. FF doesn't seem to even bother looking for the image, as if it doesn't even recognise "c:\myimages" as a valid web address?

I've tried c:\myimages, c:\\myimages, c:/myimages. All to no avail. Do I really need to move this directory inside my localhost directory structure before FF will recognise it? It's not that difficult, but I'm surprised by how finicky FF is (or I guess, how forgiving IE is)

Gordon

Try opening the image with FF. On my Mac the code is:
file:///Users/gordon/image.jpg

Eoin

This is a security measure, which IE7 also seems to carry out now also. I opened up a local image using the "File -> Open" dialog, and the resulting address was:
file:///C:/Inetpub/wwwroot/images/BannerAd.gif. But when I used this in am <img> tag, it wouldn't work.

Firefox is pretty customisable though, so if you check out this link, you may get some info on how to override this (changing the about:config alone didn't work for me though).

Edit:

Search your installation directory for "all.js" and add the following lines to the file:

pref("capability.policy.policynames", "localfilelinks");
pref("capability.policy.localfilelinks.sites", "http://localhost");
pref("capability.policy.localfilelinks.checkloaduri.enabled", "allAccess");

corblimey

Thanks, eoin, but that didn't appear to make any difference to me. If it's a security issue and IE is just coming around to it, I guess I should just get into the habit of putting my upload directory within the localhost directory schema, just solve ALL my problems.

Eoin

corblimey wrote:

Thanks, eoin, but that didn't appear to make any difference to me. If it's a security issue and IE is just coming around to it, I guess I should just get into the habit of putting my upload directory within the localhost directory schema, just solve ALL my problems.

Yeah, that's probably the easiest - though the change above did work for me. I presume you restarted your browser?

I think the security issue is to stop local executables (e.g. a command prompt) being invoked.