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Posted by robert on 05/26/06 18:36
"Oli Filth" <catch@olifilth.co.uk> wrote in message
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| John Dunlop said the following on 26/05/2006 16:02:
| > wylbur37:
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| >> <a href="file:///C:/pictures/xyz.jpg"> Picture </a>
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| > I think - could be wrong - that Firefox doesn't follow file links,
| > however they're specified, in resources requested by HTTP. It sits and
| > does nothing. Dunno what other browsers do.
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| I'm not sure this makes any sense at all. By definition, a "file://"
| link is not an "http://" link, and so doesn't involve HTTP.
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| As for why it doesn't work for the OP, though, I have no idea.
actually oli, iirc the rfc for href is for a URI and not specifically a
URL...where the resource could be even something as non-url as a javascript
function. but i've been wrong before and my memory is not the best.
i think this doesn't work because of the additional / after file://
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