George Pitcher wrote:
Hi,
I have a web page that only I see, and I want to link to a PDF file on a
mapped drive so that it will open in Acrobat.
I have tried variations on the following:
$storelink = a href=\file://G:\\.$filename..pdf\
target=\_blank\PDF/a;
and the link keeps coming
Jochem,
I have tried variations on the following:
$storelink = a href=\file://G:\\.$filename..pdf\
target=\_blank\PDF/a;
and the link keeps coming out as:
file:///G:/575991.pdf
is that what the browser (let me guess: IE) is interpreting
the link as or is that what is literally
George Pitcher wrote:
Jochem,
I have tried variations on the following:
$storelink = a href=\file://G:\\.$filename..pdf\
target=\_blank\PDF/a;
and the link keeps coming out as:
file:///G:/575991.pdf
is that what the browser (let me guess: IE) is interpreting
the link as or is that
Jochem,
This is what
the browser (guessed wrong - I'm using Firefox) shows in the status bar.
ok, right - so what does the html source actually contain?
a href=file://G:\588012.pdf target=_blankPDF/a
I'm assuming that the way firefox is interpreting the link makes
it not work?
does the
George Pitcher wrote:
Jochem,
This is what
the browser (guessed wrong - I'm using Firefox) shows in the status bar.
ok, right - so what does the html source actually contain?
a href=file://G:\588012.pdf target=_blankPDF/a
so what happens when you make it like so:
a
Jochem,
This is what
the browser (guessed wrong - I'm using Firefox) shows in the
status bar.
ok, right - so what does the html source actually contain?
a href=file://G:\588012.pdf target=_blankPDF/a
so what happens when you make it like so:
a href=file:///G:/588012.pdf
There's nothing wrong with this. It's standard. I believe the logic of
this is that the first two forward slashes represent the standard
protocol indicator: http://, ftp://, file://, while the final forward
slash represents a directory off the root directory, as a carry over
from unix
/tmp,
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