Local links again broken with NS 2.6.8.31 & FF30

[Hansl]

I'm sorry to report that the update to NS 2.6.8.31 has wrecked my local links again… (Using FF 30.0 on Linux)
Downgraded to NS 2.6.8.29 — http://noscript.net/feed — my local links do work again.

Hans

[Giorgio Maone]

Are you using any special entry for this purpose in your prefs.js file?
Did you check NoScript Options|Trusted|Allow local links?

[Hansl]

Are you using any special entry for this purpose in your prefs.js file?

Yes, I had the following two lines remaining —
   user_pref("capability.policy.localfilelinks.checkloaduri.enabled", "allAccess");
   user_pref("capability.policy.localfilelinks.sites", "http://192.168.0.11");
Removing these two lines did not help.

Did you check NoScript Options|Trusted|Allow local links?

Yes, of course. With this unchecked my links do not work.

FYI: Our intranet server runs MySQL databases and a web page with scripts that query that db and provide links to documents stored on that server.  Like:

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	[...] 
	document.getElementById("hsdb3alias").href = "file:///"+xml.getElementsByTagName("HsDb3")[box_index].textContent;
		document.getElementById("dok1alias").innerHTML = xml.getElementsByTagName("Dok1")[box_index].textContent.split("/")[xml.getElementsByTagName("Dok1")[box_index].textContent.split("/").length-1];
		document.getElementById("dok1alias").href = "file:///"+xml.getElementsByTagName("Dok1")[box_index].textContent;
		document.getElementById("dok2alias").innerHTML = xml.getElementsByTagName("Dok2")[box_index].textContent.split("/")[xml.getElementsByTagName("Dok2")[box_index].textContent.split("/").length-1];
	[...] 
 <h2>Dokumente:</h2>
  <div class="xyz">
  <table cellspacing="20px">
    <tr>
      <td><a id="dok1alias"></a></td>
      <td><a id="dok2alias"></a></td>
	[...] 

resulting in links for instance pointing to    file:///S:/TechDok/742/74286128.odt

And sorry, NS 2.6.8.33 still doesn't do it while downgrading to 2.6.8.29 works ok.

Hans

[Giorgio Maone]

Could you send me your NoScript Options|Export file, either by PM or by email?
Thank you.

[Giorgio Maone]

please try setting the noscript.excaps about:config preference to false and restoring your user.js / prefs.js CAPS custom entries.

[Hansl]

please try setting the noscript.excaps about:config preference to false

Did so — no effect.

and restoring your user.js / prefs.js CAPS custom entries.

Then restored
   user_pref("capability.policy.localfilelinks.checkloaduri.enabled", "allAccess");
   user_pref("capability.policy.localfilelinks.sites", "http://192.168.0.11");
— no effect. 
Hmm.  FWIW, I'll PM my current prefs.js.  Might contain quite some zombies sinces the first FF versions…  BTW, our Win7 machines show the same problem as my Linux box.

[Giorgio Maone]

Then restored
   user_pref("capability.policy.localfilelinks.checkloaduri.enabled", "allAccess");
   user_pref("capability.policy.localfilelinks.sites", "http://192.168.0.11");

You need also to add/edit

user_pref("capability.policy.policynames", "maonoscript localfilelinks");

[Hansl]

You need also to add/edit

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user_pref("capability.policy.policynames", "maonoscript localfilelinks");

That did it!  Now my links work again, thank you very much!
Is that a new setting?  Because 2.6.8.29 worked without it…

Thanks again, Hans

[Hansl]

I'm tearing my already grey hairs!  There's something weird going on:
On my Linux machine I have now the following four lines concerning local links, as far as I can see:

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1) user_pref("capability.policy.localfilelinks.checkloaduri.enabled", "allAccess"); 
2) user_pref("capability.policy.localfilelinks.sites", "http://192.168.0.11"); 
3) user_pref("capability.policy.policynames", "maonoscript localfilelinks"); 
4) user_pref("noscript.policynames", "localfilelinks"); 

and my links do work.  Fine.

Then I went to the first Win7 machine (all with FF30 and NS 2.6.8.33), added via about:config the string variable "capability.policy.policynames" with "maonoscript localfilelinks" and it worked, too.  Fine.

2nd Win7 machine, added via about:config the string variable "capability.policy.policynames" — it defaults "maonoscript" only and can't be changed.  The lines 1) and 2) from above were missing.  But the links work… Hm, well…

3rd Win7 machine, added via about:config the string variable "capability.policy.policynames" — it defaults "maonoscript" only and can't be changed.  The links don't work! Added the strings 1) and 2) and finally 4), but the links still don't work!

4th Win7 machine which did not have NoScript yet: Installed NS, enabled Trusted | LL, exited FF, edited prefs.js to add all four lines, restarted FF:  the links don't work!  Watching prefs.js: When about:config is opened, line 3) disappears from prefs.js while it shows as "maonoscript" only in a:c and can't be edited.  When FF is closed, the line reappears but with "localfilelinks" only.  Huh!

[Hansl]

Giorgio, you're probably aware of https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=995943#.

[Giorgio Maone]

4th Win7 machine which did not have NoScript yet: Installed NS, enabled Trusted | LL, exited FF, edited prefs.js to add all four lines, restarted FF:  the links don't work!  Watching prefs.js: When about:config is opened, line 3) disappears from prefs.js while it shows as "maonoscript" only in a:c and can't be edited.  When FF is closed, the line reappears but with "localfilelinks" only.  Huh!

Is the noscript.excaps about:config preference consistently set to false in all those machines?

[Giorgio Maone]

Giorgio, you're probably aware of https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=995943#.

Yep, and this is the most prominent reason why it's incompatible with NoScript's "Allow local links" legacy feature.

[Hansl]

Is the noscript.excaps about:config preference consistently set to false in all those machines?

Ah!  That one I had already forgotten…  Now all our machines open local file links like  file:///S:/somepath/somedoc  again as needed — thank you very much!  (The ones that worked without that setting were downgraded to NS 2.6.8.29 at that moment, I saw now).

To summarize (correct?):  Currently, with FF30 and NS 2.6.8.33, the following five settings in prefs.js or about:config are needed to allow local file links :

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user_pref("capability.policy.localfilelinks.checkloaduri.enabled", "allAccess"); 
user_pref("capability.policy.localfilelinks.sites", "<your allowed providing web server>"); 
user_pref("capability.policy.policynames", "maonoscript localfilelinks"); 
user_pref("noscript.excaps", "false";
user_pref("noscript.policynames", "localfilelinks");  

Really, this local link business and Mozilla's more or less thought-through changes have annoyed me mightily and cost me many hours several times now! (And you too, I think)  And I'm still confused about the current state.  Is the following correct?  Could you please shed some light on this?

• Since FF30, it should again be possible to allow local links out of the box, without NoScript or other add-ons? How?
• But when using NoScript (because of its other benefits) it takes over and one has to enable Trusted | Local Links and check the above five settings?
• If so, all trusted sites (from "capability.policy.maonoscript.sites") are then enabled? Or only those in "capability.policy.localfilelinks.sites"?
• The list in "capability.policy.localfilelinks.sites currently isn't editable in NS's preferences, only in about:config?  Is it a NS setting at all, or the reinstated FF feature?

Sometimes, at night, I'm unsure if the invention of the computer really was a good idea at all… Well, now I'll go get a good coffee.

Thanks again, Hans

[Giorgio Maone]

To summarize (correct?):  Currently, with FF30 and NS 2.6.8.33, the following five settings in prefs.js or about:config are needed to allow local file links :

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user_pref("capability.policy.localfilelinks.checkloaduri.enabled", "allAccess"); 
user_pref("capability.policy.localfilelinks.sites", "<your allowed providing web server>"); 
user_pref("capability.policy.policynames", "maonoscript localfilelinks"); 
user_pref("noscript.excaps", "false";
user_pref("noscript.policynames", "localfilelinks");  

Correct.

Really, this local link business and Mozilla's more or less thought-through changes have annoyed me mightily and cost me many hours several times now! (And you too, I think)  And I'm still confused about the current state.  Is the following correct?  Could you please shed some light on this?

• Since FF30, it should again be possible to allow local links out of the box, without NoScript or other add-ons? How?

Just the "capability.policy.*" mumbo jumbo above (you don't need the noscript.* stuff unless you're using NoScript)

• But when using NoScript (because of its other benefits) it takes over and one has to enable Trusted | Local Links and check the above five settings?

At this moment (see my comment in the bug and my spinoff bug report) Trusted|Local Links is pretty much broken, just ignore it.

• If so, all trusted sites (from "capability.policy.maonoscript.sites") are then enabled? Or only those in "capability.policy.localfilelinks.sites"?

Only the latter, just uncheck NoScript's "Allow local links" option.

• The list in "capability.policy.localfilelinks.sites currently isn't editable in NS's preferences, only in about:config?  Is it a NS setting at all, or the reinstated FF feature?

The latter, it's a (broken) compatibility work-around for the now defunct Mozilla CAPS functionality.

[Hansl]

Thanks for the clarification — you're a big help for quite a lot of people! Hans