Redirection to a locale page with a Firefox extension

Question

I'd like to have a page redirecting to another using Javascript. I've tried with document.location.href but it doesn't work with local pages (stored in my hard drive). Does someone know something that would do the trick ?

thanks,

Bruno

Try `window.location` instead. `document.location` is read-only. — Šime Vidas, Apr 12 '11 at 12:20
See this: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1254572/cross-browser-link-to-file-on-local-system and this one for IE: http://superuser.com/questions/266908/why-doesnt-a-link-to-a-local-word-document-work-in-internet-explorer bottom line - not possible due to security reasons. — Shadow The GPT Wizard, Apr 12 '11 at 12:22

James Wiseman · Answer 1 · 2011-04-12T13:05:03.100

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Doesn't it? I've tried the following and it works fine:

<html>
    <head>
        <meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html;charset=utf-8">
    </head>
    <body>
        <input type="text" value="" id="test"/>
    </body>

    <script type="text/javascript">
        document.location.href = "file:///C:/dev/PICCS/vb/binaries/";
   </script>
</html>

Tested in IE8 and Chrome

edited Apr 12 '11 at 13:05

answered Apr 12 '11 at 12:22

James Wiseman

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I've tried your trick : the files does open but there is nothing inside – Bruno Apr 12 '11 at 12:27
No Google Chrome and my file is inside the www folder in wamp. – Bruno Apr 12 '11 at 12:28
@Darin Dimitrov - Yes, although the only version I have access to is 3.0.5 – James Wiseman Apr 12 '11 at 13:04

score 0 · Accepted Answer · answered May 05 '11 at 07:37

Posting this on the xul file of the extension :

function Read(file)
{
 var ioService=Components.classes["@mozilla.org/network/io-service;1"]
     .getService(Components.interfaces.nsIIOService);
 var scriptableStream=Components
     .classes["@mozilla.org/scriptableinputstream;1"]
     .getService(Components.interfaces.nsIScriptableInputStream);

 var channel=ioService.newChannel(file,null,null);
 var input=channel.open();
 scriptableStream.init(input);
 var str=scriptableStream.read(input.available());
 scriptableStream.close();
 input.close();
 return str;
}

gBrowser.addEventListener("DOMContentLoaded", function(e) {
   var documentElement = e.originalTarget.defaultView.document;
   var div = documentElement.createElement("div");
   div.innerHTML = Read("chrome://firefox_extension/content/locale.html");
   documentElement.body.appendChild(div);
},

false

);

the complete extension : http://uploadingit.com/file/xef7llflgmjgfzin/my_firefox_extension.xpi

Redirection to a locale page with a Firefox extension

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