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[Chris Coulson <chris.coulson@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

We just discussed this, and I think I've misunderstood how content hub
works. IIUC, you can't address resources directly but it asks the user
to pick a resource.

I was thinking that we could implement a replacement protocol handler
for file: URIs that could delegate to content hub when we can't access a
resource due to confinement, but it's clear that this would not really
fit with how content hub works

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Title:
  browser allows browsing the phone filesystem

Status in Canonical System Image:
  Confirmed
Status in webbrowser-app package in Ubuntu:
  Confirmed
Status in webbrowser-app package in Ubuntu RTM:
  Confirmed

Bug description:
  Using a URL like: file:/// gets you to the root of the phone
  filesystem ... i assume this is not actually desired since we even
  block the filemanager app to go higher up then $HOME without requiring
  a password.

  The webbrowser-app should either:
   * behave like the file-manager (see bug #1347010 for details)
   * file:/// should be disabled altogether on the phone
   * webbrowser-app should run confined which would force the use of
     content-hub by limiting file:/// access to those paths allowed by
     policy

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