[pmwiki-users] how does one encode "file:" link in a wiki page?

[Gautam H. Thaker]

Patrick R. Michaud wrote:
> On Tue, Jan 25, 2005 at 10:16:14AM -0500, Gautam H. Thaker wrote:
> 
>>>If you can get
>>>me examples of file:- urls that work (and don't work) in each
>>>browser, I'll prototype some code for you to do this.
>>
>>OK, on mozilla 1.7.3 on RH Linux (EL3), the following entries in the 
>>"destination" properly find a file.
>>    file:/home/gthaker/file
>>and
>>    file:///home/gthaker/file
>>
>>FOr us it would be really neat to be able to encode file URLs in wiki.
> 
> 
> Okay, so why not just use those?  I.e., what doesn't work if you
> do "file:/home/gthaker/file" or "file:///home/gthaker/file" in a
> wiki page?
> 

Typing either file:/path or file:///path in the mozilla "destination field" 
works and these files get loaded. However, if I have the following entries in a 
.html file which the browswer is viewing *NONE* of the entries can be used to 
follow to the file.

So, bottom line, as you have said, typing a file: url in browser "destination 
field" is very diff. from getting the "file:" to work from a HTML page. And I 
have been unable to get browswer to reach a file:  I tried in my index.html file:

<hr>
<a href=file:/home/gthaker/public_html/usage>file using one slash </a>
<br>
<a href=file://home/gthaker/public_html/usage>file using two slashes </a>
<br>
<a href=file://home/gthaker/public_html/usage>file using three slashes </a>
<br>
Other attempts, directly put the string in (Not expected to work?)
<br>
file:/home/gthaker/public_html/usage
<br>
file://home/gthaker/public_html/usage
<br>
file:///home/gthaker/public_html/usage

and none of these work. Is this due to httpd file acess restrictions issue? I am 
trying to reach a file in the same directory from which the httpd is serving my 
index.html page.

thanks.

Gautam


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