On Ter, 07 Jun 2011, Liam O'Toole wrote:
The URL file:///~/Category2.html cannot be loaded by iceweasel in my case (iceweasel 4 on squeeze). I only see the message "File not found ... Iceweasel can't find the file at /~/Category2.html." Interestingly, lynx opens the file without grumbling, but then lynx will open just about anything.
Probably because ~ is not a magical token in the Linux kernel. Firefox is just trying to open a file "/~/Category2.html", a file in a directory literally called "~" under root.
Several programs (notably the shell) take "~" to mean the user's home directly, and convert that to the actual file path before opening it.
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