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Shalem
Shalem

Reputation: 1516

Can't connect to remote server from FireFox but works in IE & Chrome

I have some html to connect to server's(Remote server path's) like this

           <TABLE BORDER="5"  WIDTH="90%" CELLPADDING="4" CELLSPACING="3">
       <TR>
          <TH COLSPAN="2"><BR><H4><Font color=GREEN><b>CIT</b></FONT></H4></TH>
       </TR>
       <TR>
          <TH COLSPAN="2">123</TH>
      <TH></TH>
       </TR>
       <TR ALIGN="CENTER">
          <TD COLSPAN="2"><a href=http://123.abc.com/apps>Eformer</a></TD>
       </TR>
       <TR ALIGN="CENTER">
      <TD><a href=http://123.abc.com/apps/way>Gateway - PULSE</a></TD>
      <TD><a href=http://123.abc.com/apps/gate>Gateway - HONDA</a></TD>
       </TR>
       <TR ALIGN="CENTER">
      <TD><a href=http://123.abc.com/apps/mm>Fax - PULSE</a></TD>
      <TD><a href=http://123.abc.com/apps/mn>Fax - HONDA</a></TD>
       </TR>
        <TR ALIGN="CENTER">
      <TD><a href=http://123.abc.com/apps/pulse>TYPE - PULSE</a></TD>
       </TR>
       <TR ALIGN="CENTER">
      <TD><a href=http://123.abc.com/apps/xy>POST - PULSE</a></TD>
      <TD><a href=http://123.abc.com/apps/yz>POST - HONDA</a></TD>
       </TR>
       <TR ALIGN="CENTER">
      <TD><a href=http://123.abc.com/apps/ss>Agent - PULSE</a></TD>
       </TR>
    </TABLE>

This works in IE & Chrome but doesn't work in Firefox. Can someone extend their kind help to work out?

Upvotes: 1

Views: 270

Answers (3)

Shalem
Shalem

Reputation: 1516

Finally,i've found it. There is variation in format to work in firefox.We need to include 5 forward slashes to work in firefox.Here is the example

<a href ="file://///123/APPS/path"> Eformer </a>

For our example it should be formatted as - 

<TD><a href="file://///123/APPS/xy">POST - PULSE</a></TD>
<TD><a href="file://///123/APPS/yz">POST - HONDA</a></TD>

where 123 is server name and no need to specify domain(abc.com) in our above example. This works in all IE,Chrome & Firefox browswers.

Upvotes: 2

Daniel W.
Daniel W.

Reputation: 32310

All mentioned browsers are capable of handling invalid HTML and opening your links in an appropriate manner. <a href="http://blabla.com/one/two">link</a> is one of the oldest HTML tags and core functionality of HTML and works even if you are using very old versions of browsers.

As a good analyist, there must be something different going wrong; I can imagine 3 cases:

  1. You are using a missconfigured proxy (from school or business) which has a problem with your paths.

  2. Your browser(s) openes the url correct, but your server redirects to a different (wrong/unexpected) path due to missconfiguration

  3. You have installed a firewall / antivirus / proxy / plugin which changes the URI in the HTTP request to something unexpected

Good luck on your mission Mr. Hunt. This message will self destruct in 5, ..4, ...3, ...

Upvotes: 0

Ashwani
Ashwani

Reputation: 3481

Links in href must be enclosed in "" as 

<a href="http://123.abc.com/apps"></a>

Read more about using links here. Also link url must not be broken on server end.

Upvotes: 0

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