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Downloading Build Failure Logs in Firefox
When using a Daemon enabled release, failed daemon builds result in build failure logs being stored temporarily. These logs may be viewed via the Build Status display for the relevant release.

However, downloading files via a UNC path is a security hazard and Firefox ignores (silently) such links by default. Those using Internet Explorer have no such problem. What can you do about this when using Firefox?

In the most recent versions of Firefox, by creating a custom security policy, downloading these build failure logs can be enabled.

To do this, create a user.js file in the Firefox profiles folder. This folder is user specific. Here is an example:

      C:\Documents and Settings\username\Application Data\Mozilla\Firefox\Profiles\9bvgcwod.default

Your folder will be named slightly differently ofcoarse - everyone has their own username, and the prefix of the .default folder may be different. If there is already a user.js file in the folder, simply update it as follows.

Edit the new/existing user.js file and insert the following 3 lines of text:

user_pref("capability.policy.policynames", "localfilelinks");
user_pref("capability.policy.localfilelinks.sites", "http://bms:8002");
user_pref("capability.policy.localfilelinks.checkloaduri.enabled", "allAccess");


This tells Firefox that for certain local UNC file paths, it should ignore the security threat and download the file.

Restart Firefox and downloading ROOT CAUSE files from auperaunx26 should now be allowed.