diff -r 79859ed3eea9 -r 919f36ff910f webengine/osswebengine/WebKit/s60/webview/WebPolicyManager.cpp
--- a/webengine/osswebengine/WebKit/s60/webview/WebPolicyManager.cpp	Tue Aug 31 16:17:46 2010 +0300
+++ b/webengine/osswebengine/WebKit/s60/webview/WebPolicyManager.cpp	Wed Sep 01 12:28:30 2010 +0100
@@ -29,15 +29,14 @@
 #include "WebUtil.h"
 #include "StaticObjectsContainer.h"
 #include "PlugInInfoStore.h"
-#include "MimeTypeRegistry.h"
-#include <uri8.h>
+#include "MIMETypeRegistry.h"
+#include <Uri8.h>
 #include <badesca.h>
 
 using namespace WebCore;
 
 // CONSTANTS
 const char* typeTextHtml = "text/html";
-const char* typeTextXml = "text/xml";
 const char* typeApplicationXhtml = "application/xhtml+xml";
 const char* typeTextPlain = "text/plain";
 const char* typeApplicationWapXhtml = "application/vnd.wap.xhtml+xml";
@@ -47,6 +46,8 @@
 const char* typeSvg = "svg";
 _LIT(KPathBegin,"<!--framePathBegin ");
 _LIT(KPathEnd," framePathEnd --!>");
+_LIT8(KFileSchema, "file://");
+_LIT8(KFileSchemaUnixStyle, "file:///");
 
 WebPolicyManager::WebPolicyManager(WebFrameLoaderClient* webFrameLoaderClient) :
 m_webFrameLoaderClient(webFrameLoaderClient)
@@ -161,8 +162,7 @@
     if (MIMEType == typeTextHtml ||
         MIMEType == typeApplicationXhtml ||
         MIMEType == typeApplicationWapXhtml ||
-        MIMEType == typeMultipartMixed || 
-        MIMEType == typeTextXml) {
+        MIMEType == typeMultipartMixed) {
         found = true;
     }
     //Check if the image type can be handled by the browser. If not
@@ -181,8 +181,19 @@
     else if( MIMEType == typeTextPlain ||
              MIMEType == typeApplicationOctetStream ) {
         TPtrC8 url = (core(m_webFrameLoaderClient->webFrame()))->loader()->activeDocumentLoader()->responseURL().des();
+       //Converting TPtrC8 to TPtr8 as Delete() is supported in TPtr8.
+       HBufC8* lUrl = HBufC8::NewLC(url.Length());
+       lUrl->Des().Copy( url );
+       TPtr8 tempurl = lUrl->Des();
+       //Truncate file:// or file:///(Unix style)  from the URI as the path
+       //file:\\c:\\...\\... is not recognised as a valid path by TUriParser
+         if(url.FindF(KFileSchema)!= KErrNotFound)
+             tempurl.Delete(0,KFileSchema().Length());
+       else if(url.FindF(KFileSchemaUnixStyle)!= KErrNotFound)
+           tempurl.Delete(0,KFileSchemaUnixStyle().Length());
+         
         TUriParser8 parser;
-        if( parser.Parse(url) == KErrNone ) {
+        if( parser.Parse(tempurl) == KErrNone ) {
             TPtrC8 path = parser.Extract( EUriPath );
             // path == 1 means only / (no filename)
             if( path.Length() > 1 ) {
@@ -194,6 +205,7 @@
                          path.Find(_L8(".txt"))  != KErrNotFound);
             }
         }
+        CleanupStack::PopAndDestroy(lUrl);
     }
     // tot:fixme defaultcontenthandler is only for selfdownloadable, go through the list
     return found;