Posted by Jonathan N. Little on 09/30/76 11:52

Benjamin Niemann wrote:
> Sonnich wrote:
>
>> Hi all!
>>
>> I have this in IE:
>> The font change works in both IE and mozilla, but the link does not
>> work in mozilla... can anyone help stupid me?
>>
>> <a
> onclick="OpenWin(&quot;file:///\\\\some_server/some_folders/file.pdf&quot;);">
>> here
>> </a>
>
> Backslashes are not allowed in URLs. Although Windows uses the backslash as
> a seperator, always use the forward slash in URLs. IE is known
> to 'auto-correct' backslashes into correct slashes, but other browsers are
> not so forgiving. The correct URL should be
> <file://some_server/some_folders/file.pdf>.
>
>

Not enough slashes there for any browser other than IE, need 5.

file://///server_name...


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