If you wanted to browse the local filesystem, the correct URL would be
"file:///", not "file:/".
Anyway, ubuntu touch’s security model prevents the browser from browsing the
file system by design.
** Changed in: webbrowser-app (Ubuntu)
Status: New => Invalid
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https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1516249
Title:
file:/ URLs not supported
Status in webbrowser-app package in Ubuntu:
Invalid
Bug description:
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... :-(
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