Working on an internal webpage and trying to make links to a server folder location. I can get the links to work in IE, but it doesn't want to work in mozilla.

I can get the link to work when I have the .htm file on my computer and open it. The link doesn't want to work if the .htm is located on the web server. :confused:

I am using the standard
<a href="file:///r:/Net-Docs/noc_tech_info/PIE-Production_Impact_Explanation">
PIE</a>


When using mozilla is it thinking the web server should be able to connect to that folder and not the local machine. The R drive is a Novell drive and our web server is linux based and doesn't have access to the R drive.

Is it possible that your company's IT department has IE configured to view linking between internal folders as safe, and simply hasn't bothered to address users who wish to use other browsers?

The idiots in our global communications department declared IE to be the corporate standard browser, much to the chagrin of our IT department (who knew better - but not all do). About 1/2 the company went and downloaded something else instead, and IT supported it. But you may be facing UA String issues with Moz. based on a corporate configuration. I might be wildly off-base, but it wouldn't hurt to try spoofing your UA to at least eliminate this possibility. http://www.proxomitron.info will help with that - it's a localhost proxy - very nice little program ;)

I checked IE. It has nothing under the trusted sites. We do use a proxy, but that doesn't matter either way, because we can get around the proxy just fine. I tried using a target _blank to open the link in a new window and it still didn't work. Also created a button using javascript and pointed it to that folder and that doesn't work either. :mad:

Does Firefox not support linking to folders? I will post on the firefox forums in a bit to see what anyone there says.

Found the fix after doing some searching on the firefox support forums.

Just a FYI for anyone else that may want to do this. You can drag and drop a link to your address bar to open it or change the security feture permantly by going into the about:config of firefox. Change the security.checkloaduri and set this to false.

:)

http://www.mozilla.org/releases/mozilla1.7/known-issues.html#psm