UserAgent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/63.0.3239.132 Safari/537.36

Steps to reproduce the problem:
1. click hyperlink on a web page with URL of: file://servername/folder1/folder2/file.docx - Chrome does not download the file
2. Manually enter the above URL into address bar - Chrome downloads the file
3. Open DevTools and click hyperlink to same URL (from the "not allowed to load local resource" error - Chrome downloads the file

What is the expected behavior?
Any file download would be blocked for security reasons

What went wrong?
I was unable to download the file by clicking hyperlink on a web page, but was able to copy link address and paste into address bar and download, as well as open DevTools and click the URL in the error message and download it.

SO, where is the protection for this?

Did this work before? N/A 

Chrome version: 64.0.3282.167  Channel: n/a
OS Version: 7
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