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Posted by Chuck Anderson on 10/10/07 04:00
Jeff Gaines wrote:
> On 09/10/2007 in message
> <slrnfgnddb.1h4n.usenet@debranded.larseighner.com> Lars Eighner wrote:
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>
>> In our last episode, <xn0fc8zbu1j3b5e002@news.individual.net>, the lovely
>> and talented Jeff Gaines broadcast on comp.lang.php:
>>
>
> How did you know that about me, Lars - we've not met :-)
>
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>> I sugget you try to navigate to the files with your browser alone.
>> Bookmark
>> one of them and then see if your corresponding link looks exactly like the
>> bookmark.
>>
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> IE7 just shows the file path in the address bar:
> D:\Temp\Listing.html
>
> Firefox shows:
> file:///D:/Temp/Listing.html
>
> IE7 uses DOS notation, Firefox Linux notation. Neither will navigate to my
> links though :-(
>
>
>> It may be that files with spaces require url encoding (ie. <space> = %20 ).
>> That obviously is not your problem now because you are failing on files
>> without spaces in their names.
>>
>
> I've avoided files with spaces so far, that's the next hurdle.
>
>
>> Anyway, when you see what your browser thinks a bookmark to the file should
>> look like, you know what a link it can follow should look like.
>>
>
> The link matches what nVU produces if I create the file manually. I just
> wondered if it is not working because it is within a php file rather than
> an html file. Mind you www type URL's work. Really weird, I'll have to
> keep trying I think.
>
>
I see you've found a better solution (using localhost), but this is a
Firefox thing:
http://kb.mozillazine.org/Links_to_local_pages_don't_work
I took Firefox developers word for it (security risk),and ended up
putting an alias in apache's httpd_conf file:
Alias /cdrive/ "c:/"
That allows me to use /cdrive/path to file
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