Posted by Greg N. on 11/19/90 11:34

Els wrote:

> Of course it doesn't. How is that webserver where that page is hosted
> to know where it can find "C:\filename.avi" ? It will look for it on
> its own C: drive, if it has one.

No, it's not the task of the web server to find "C:\filename.avi". The
UA needs to find it. As this is a local file, the UA should look for it
on the local disk.

So, this should work, but of course only on clients whose disk actually
contain a copy of "C:\filename.avi".

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