'NavigateTo' is not working for local address under Chrome

[Volodymyr]

Hi All,

We have recently faced an issue when trying to navigate local address under Chrome using  NavigateTo() Browser object method.  The browser doesn't react to the passed URI (e.g "C:\\Users\\admin\\AppData\\Local\\Temp\\PageWeb.htm")

We use next hardware:
 OS: Win 7 x32/64
 Browser: Firefox 16.0.2
 TTF: 2012.2.1002
Chrome:23.0.1271.95 m

Thanks in advance!

[Boyan Boev]

Hello Volodymyr,

Unfortunately it's a security restriction of Google Chrome. It will not load our extension when loading a local file. We have been looking but so far have not found a way to overcome this Google Chrome security restriction. There is no exposed security setting that we have found that we can set to allow our extension to load in this scenario.

The workaround here is to install IIS ( Internet Information Services) on your machine and  place the file into the IIS documents folder: C:\inetpub\wwwroot. Then all you need to do is navigate to http://localhost/PageWeb.htm

You can install it from Control Panel\All Control Panel Items\Programs and Features => Turn windows fetures on or off (see the attached screen shot).

Let me know if this helps.

Greetings,
Boyan Boev
the Telerik team

[Volodymyr]

Thanks

[Volodymyr]

Hi Boyan,

As I know some Google Chrome extensions have checkbox: "Allow access to URL address files" but Telerik TestStudio dosn't have this checkbox, I think this checkbox  can solve the issue described above

Regards,
Volodymyr

[Boyan Boev]

Hello Vododymyr,

Thank you for your feedback.

I have added a feature request for this here. You can add your vote to it. The more votes it gets the higher its priority compared to all of our other feature requests.

Thanks for your input, which we rely upon to improve our product.
 

Kind regards,
Boyan Boev
the Telerik team