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Sangsom
Sangsom

Reputation: 437

href="file://" doesn't work

I have a problem with: href="file://" Well I want to point a link in html to file, in browser if I write like 

 file:///K:/filename.pdf

It works to open a file, but if I point it to:

      href="http://file:///K:/AmberCRO%20SOP/2011-07-05/SOP-SOP-3.0.pdf"

It doesn't work. link is changed to:

file///K:/AmberCRO%20SOP/2011-07-05/SOP-SOP-3.0.pdf

The colon after file disappears. Any suggestions as to what to do?

Upvotes: 7

Views: 134894

Answers (4)

Roger Browne
Roger Browne

Reputation: 1

Although the ffile:////.exe used to work (for example - some versions of early html 4) it appears html 5 disallows this. Tested using the following:

<a href="ffile:///<path name>/<filename>.exe" TestLink /a> 
<a href="ffile://<path name>/<filename>.exe" TestLink /a> 
<a href="ffile:/<path name>/<filename>.exe" TestLink /a> 
<a href="ffile:<path name>/<filename>.exe" TestLink /a> 
<a href="ffile://///<path name>/<filename>.exe" TestLink /a> 
<a href="file://<path name>/<filename>.exe" TestLink /a> 
<a href="file:/<path name>/<filename>.exe" TestLink /a> 
<a href="file:<path name>/<filename>.exe" TestLink /a> 
<a href="ffile://///<path name>/<filename>.exe" TestLink /a>

as well as ... 1/ substituted the "ffile" with just "file" 2/ all the above variations with the http:// prefixed before the ffile or file.

The best I could see was there is a possibility that if one wanted to open (edit) or save the file, it could be accomplished. However, the exec file would not execute otherwise.

Upvotes: 0

Max Becerra
Max Becerra

Reputation: 486

Share your folder for "everyone" or some specific group and try this:

<a href="file://YOURSERVERNAME/AmberCRO%20SOP/2011-07-05/SOP-SOP-3.0.pdf"> Download PDF </a>

Upvotes: 0

Ian G
Ian G

Reputation: 30234

The reason your URL is being rewritten to file///K:/AmberCRO%20SOP/2011-07-05/SOP-SOP-3.0.pdf is because you specified http://file://

The http:// at the beginning is the protocol being used, and your browser is stripping out the second colon (:) because it is invalid.

Note

If you link to something like

<a href="file:///K:/yourfile.pdf">yourfile.pdf</a>

The above represents a link to a file called k:/yourfile.pdf on the k: drive on the machine on which you are viewing the URL.

You can do this, for example the below creates a link to C:\temp\test.pdf 

<a href="file:///C:/Temp/test.pdf">test.pdf</a>

By specifying file:// you are indicating that this is a local resource. This resource is NOT on the internet.

Most people do not have a K:/ drive.

But, if this is what you are trying to achieve, that's fine, but this is not how a "typical" link on a web page works, and you shouldn't being doing this unless everyone who is going to access your link has access to the (same?) K:/drive (this might be the case with a shared network drive).

You could try

<a href="file:///K:/AmberCRO-SOP/2011-07-05/SOP-SOP-3.0.pdf">test.pdf</a>
<a href="AmberCRO-SOP/2011-07-05/SOP-SOP-3.0.pdf">test.pdf</a>
<a href="2011-07-05/SOP-SOP-3.0.pdf">test.pdf</a>

Note that http://file:///K:/AmberCRO%20SOP/2011-07-05/SOP-SOP-3.0.pdf is a malformed

Upvotes: 13

Dipak
Dipak

Reputation: 12190

%20 is the space between AmberCRO SOP.

Try - 

href="http://file:///K:/AmberCRO SOP/2011-07-05/SOP-SOP-3.0.pdf"

Or rename the folder as AmberCRO-SOP and write it as - 

href="http://file:///K:/AmberCRO-SOP/2011-07-05/SOP-SOP-3.0.pdf"

Upvotes: 0

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