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the_photon
the_photon

Reputation: 196

opening a local web page with a jEditorPane

Sirs,

I am developing a GUI in Java with Netbeans.

For the purposes of prototyping, I am needing to open an HTML document (that is located on my hard drive) into a jEditorPane. The code that I currently have is this:

HtmlPane.setPage(new URL("C:\\Users\\blah\\Desktop\\example1\\example1\\PracticeHTML.html"));

This throws a java.net.MalformedURLException.

When I try:

HtmlPane.setPage(new URL("https://www.example.com"));

The example.com page opens as one would expect in my HtmlPane.

Obviously, anything beginning with C:\\Users . . . isn't a bona fide URL in that the computer never has to get on the world wide web to get to the html document, but I fail to see why this throws an exception.

Can anyone tell me where I have gone wrong?

Thanks in advance.

Upvotes: 0

Views: 196

Answers (1)

elhefe
elhefe

Reputation: 3494

The issue is that a file path in itself is not a url. To specify a local file as a url you need to do something like this:

file:///[path]

The full syntax is

file://[host]/[path]

... but host is assumed to be localhost if missing.

Upvotes: 1

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