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[Olivier Tilloy <olivier.tilloy@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

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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