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

Patrick R. Michaud pmichaud at pobox.com
Mon Jan 24 17:27:31 CST 2005


On Mon, Jan 24, 2005 at 06:10:32PM -0500, Neil Herber wrote:
> [...]
> If I type the file:///<path> into the "destination" (what is that field 
> called?) it works too.
> [...]
> If I put the  file:///<path> on a wiki page and try to use the link, it 
> does not work.
> [...]
> I also noted that an HTML page I created in a text editor with a link to a 
> file:/// spec using double quotes on the link *did not work* - so Firefox 
> (and I suspect, Mozilla) is preventing the display. IE 6 worked with the 
> hand-built file.

This sort of thing also happens with IE and a few other browsers -- 
namely, the browser processes a file:-url differently if  typed in
an address bar versus coming from the markup of an HTML page.  I don't
know why this is, but it just is.  :-)

Pm



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