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Posted by Mike.Duffy on 02/28/07 01:24
What is the default directory in the client file system that is used for
file urls?
From performing a few experiments, it is clear that an unqualified
reference from another file url is always directed to the source directory.
I.e., from within url "file://c:/abc/def.htm", if you make a reference like
<href="ghi.htm">, or <img src="jkl.gif">,the browser will look for
"file://c:/abc/ghi.htm" or "file://c:/abc/jkl.gif".
But from within url "http://mno.htm", (i.e. a file you put on a web server)
if you use <href="file://ghi.htm">, or <img src="file://jkl.gif">, exactly
where does the browser look for the file? I realize that it would likely be
OS-dependant, but am chiefly interested in the Windows environment. Does it
use one of those user or system environment variables? Or will it always
fail? I have not been able to guess where to put the files in order to
"find" them like this. Does anyone have any suggestions before I take the
systematic approach of placing a watermarked file into every sub-directory
in my filesystem and seeing what comes up? I think I can actually do this
with a small amount of effort using one of those freeware html index
builder programs, but it would probably take a while to run. (And clean up
afterwards!!)
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