On Oct 8, 12:58 pm, Thomas Broyer <[email protected]> wrote: > On 8 oct, 15:57, jhulford <[email protected]> wrote: > > > There's nothing that should be preventing it from working > > Well, except the browser itself! > > AFAIK, Firefox at least won't let you open file: links from an http: > page.
D'oh..you're totally right: http://kb.mozillazine.org/Links_to_local_pages_don%27t_work. I thought I had recalled doing this myself at some point, apparently not with Firefox. > > > (assuming "file:///" is a typo and you meant "file://path/to/file.txt"). > > FYI, the file: URL scheme contains an authority part, just like http, > and an empty authority means "localhost"; so there generally *are* (or > should be) 3 /, file:///foo being equivalent to file://localhost/foo > This allows you to make links to shared/network folders on other > machines; for instance, the UNC path \\samba-server\shared\foo can be > expressed as an URL as file://samba-server/shared/foo (in theory at > least ;-) ) Interesting...I was not aware of that. Good to know. You are an encyclopedia of web app knowlege, Thomas. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Google Web Toolkit" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected]. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/google-web-toolkit?hl=en.
