Posted by Martin Jay on 05/26/06 20:18

In message <1148654190.083042.204000@i40g2000cwc.googlegroups.com>,
wylbur37 <wylbur37nospam@yahoo.com> writes
>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.

It's disabled for security reasons.

There's more information about this at:
<http://kb.mozillazine.org/Links_to_local_pages_don't_work>
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