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portalplanet
01-30-2004, 06:17 PM
Hi all. I think it's a setting for IE maybe.. My client has an online application and one of the forms lets a user create a link to a local or intranet (a mapped drive) file. I have something like this to link to it:


<A HREF="file:///C|/index.html">file:///C|/index.html</A>


Is this a security setting for IE to allow a link like this to work? When I click on it from his site nothing happens.

Thanks,
Justin
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Jasber
01-30-2004, 06:21 PM
I think it's because you have C| and not C:

I tried this on Firebird and IE and it worked:
<A HREF="file:///c:/">file:///c:/index.html</A>

Good luck

portalplanet
01-30-2004, 06:34 PM
Originally posted by Jasber
I think it's because you have C| and not C:

I tried this on Firebird and IE and it worked:
<A HREF="file:///c:/">file:///c:/index.html</A>

Good luck

I tried the | after dreamweaver did that when I created a local link trying to test it.

Justin
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