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Posted by wylbur37 on 05/26/06 18:48
wylbur37 wrote:
> 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?
I just tried running the same script while in Internet Explorer
and it works.
But when I run it in Mozilla 1.4 (suite) or Firefox 1.5,
I get the problem described above.
Usually it's the other way around (i.e., it doesn't work in Internet
Explorer
but works in Mozilla or Firefox).
It must be because of some setting in the browser.
I wonder what it could be.
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