You can do this with a 'file://...' url, that will cause the browser to open a file on the local file system, the browser won't need to ask for permission, the only issue is that the files will need to be in a known path.
François On May 22, 2014, at 12:34 PM, Aseem Bansal <asmbans...@gmail.com> wrote: > The server will not be able to open pages stored on client machine but the > client user should be able to open html pages stored on client machine by > clicking on a hyperlink manually. > > On Thursday, May 22, 2014 10:02:52 PM UTC+5:30, Aseem Bansal wrote: > I want the the webpage served to the client machine from the server to have a > hyperlink. The hyperlink will be for a html file stored on the client > machine. After the webpage has been served to the client webbrowser then when > the client user clicks on the hyperlink I want the html page to be opened in > the webbrowser. The webbrowser can ask for the permissions if necessary. > > Basically I want a interface where I can manage my bookmarks - offline or > online for which I am making this. So any ideas now? > > On Thursday, May 22, 2014 1:45:53 PM UTC+5:30, Daniel Roseman wrote: > On Tuesday, 20 May 2014 19:29:06 UTC+1, Aseem Bansal wrote: > I am working on a BookMarker project for managing my bookmarks. I was > creating the search page for lisitng bookmarks as per categories. I hit a > snag while testing it. I am unable to open locally stored webpages. I > understand that it is for security purposes but is it possible (cross-browser > way) to grant permissions for a app to open locally stored files? The app can > ask for permissions for this. > > You'll need to be a bit clearer. Ignoring for the moment the fact that the > client and the server are the same machine in development, are you hoping for > your server to be able to open pages stored locally on your client? That's > not going to be possible, for what I hope are obvious reasons. If that's not > what you mean, you should explain in more detail. > -- > DR. > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "Django users" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to django-users+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. > To post to this group, send email to django-users@googlegroups.com. > Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/django-users. > To view this discussion on the web visit > https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/django-users/7df2d6a2-dcc9-4551-8617-a4eb30003926%40googlegroups.com. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Django users" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to django-users+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to django-users@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/django-users. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/django-users/76D50DFA-6030-4529-951C-C4643DFA3064%40gmail.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
