Posted by wylbur37 on 05/26/06 17:36

I'm running an Apache server on my own computer (Windows XP Pro).

I wrote a simple PHP script (called test3.php) that I'm running by
putting the following URL in the address bar of the browser (Firefox)
....

http://localhost/test3.php

The script generates the following link using the echo statement ...

<a href="file:///C:/pictures/xyz.jpg"> Picture </a>

("C:/pictures/xyz.jpg", as you can guess by now, is an image file on
my harddrive, but it's not in the document root).

When I clicked on the link, nothing happened. However, if I
RIGHT-click on it and select "Copy link location" (which copies the
URL to the clipboard) and then paste the URL into the address bar of
the browser, the picture then displays correctly.

Why did it not work when I clicked on the link the first time, but it
only worked when I pasted the link to the address bar?

Is there some special notation/syntax that I need to use to get this
to work properly?

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