Posted by Jukka K. Korpela on 02/28/07 07:53

Scripsit Mike.Duffy:

> What is the default directory in the client file system that is used
> for file urls?

Whatever the browser programmers decided. The detailed syntax and especially
the meaning of file urls is system-dependent, making them almost useless in
WWW authoring. You don't actually see them much on web pages except as
products of wrong use of authoring software that uses them internally
(replacing them by http urls when used properly).

> From performing a few experiments, it is clear that an unqualified
> reference from another file url is always directed to the source
> directory.

That might happen in the browsers you have tested. You have a few hundreds
of millions of other situations to test.

> I have not
> been able to guess where to put the files in order to "find" them
> like this.

Just stop the guesswork and upload the files onto a web server (or other
http server), or - if you're doing this for your own use or very restricted
user range only - use relative references (with no protocol part anywhere)
only.

--
Jukka K. Korpela ("Yucca")
http://www.cs.tut.fi/~jkorpela/

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