[mythtv] Feature Request - MythWeb - Restore previous Video_URL funtionality

[Marc Randolph]

Try adding more forward slashes (more than just two).  I've not tried
lately, but that used to work around the security restriction.

   Marc

On Mon, Mar 17, 2008 at 9:10 PM, Mark Goldberg <marklgoldberg at gmail.com> wrote:
> On March 17, You wrote:
>
>  >Go into mythweb TV settings and edit "Download URL override:" to point
>  >to your local video mount. It should work fine. All I did was remove
>  >the old myth:// protocol entry because it relied in the dsmyth
>  >filters, which seems to be a dead project.
>  >
>  >-Chris
>
>  Apparently a link to file:// is not allowed by the default
>  installation of Firefox on Linux or Windows or IE. You get errors
>  like:
>
>  Security Error: Content at http://192.X.Y.Z/mythweb/tv/recorded may
>  not load or link to file://192.X.Y.Z/video/3121_20080315222800.mpg.
>
>  (I've obfuscated the real IP address of my backend but the error
>  occurs even if I put a bogus ip or hostname there. The error message
>  has whatever you put in the first instance and the IP of the web
>  server in the second)
>
>  I would assume this is a vulnerabiliy they won't allow.
>
>  Mark
>
>
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