Files are opened by browsers using the URI format: "file:///"

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File_URI_scheme

On Aug 4, 12:21 pm, Iain <[email protected]> wrote:
> Hi All
>
> Hope you can help as I am stumped.
>
> I have a web page developed using Visual Studio 2008/C#.
> .Net install level on the Web server is set to 3.5 SP1.
>
> The page reads a directory (at the moment it is reading the web server
> c drive) and displays the contents of the directory in a treeview
> component. No problem there so far.
>
> My problem is that the documents will not open in either Firefox or
> More importantly IE (our default). However that actions are different
> in the browsers.
>
> In firefox The error
>
> "Firefox doesn't know how to open this address, because the protocol
> (c) isn't associated with any program"
>
> is displayed.
>
> In IE the file just does not open. Nothing appears to happen.
>
> A sample of the links on a tree node are
>
> c:\temp\Websites.txt
> c:\OpenManage\docs\en\OpenManage_IS_UG\instlx10.jpg
>
> I can normally open .txt, .jpg and other file types using either
> browser.
>
> My code is listed below.
>
> Thanks in advance for Any help which will be most gratefully received.
>
> Iain
>

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