[pmwiki-users] Links to files on a network share not working inboth IE and Firefox

[Crisp, Steve [UK]]

Good idea, just tried it and it didn't work.  Even if it did work I suspect that this would then break Internet Explorer.
 
I've done much more debugging now and found that this must be a security feature of Mozilla based browsers (perhaps others as well).  In the attached file you can see the error messages I am getting.  You can override the security here by doing the following:

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	From a Mozilla-based browser enter 'about:config' in the URL
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	Set the 'security.checkloaduri' attribute to 'false'

WARNING: This could leave you open to attack by rogue web pages - a web page (well java script) could read a file from your hard disk!
 
Anyway, in our company we have _other_ security measures and are happy with this configuration internally, so the above works for us.
 
Thanks for all your help Chistophe - glad I managed to sort it in the end because this was a real pain.
 
-Steve.

 
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From: Christophe David [mailto:pmwiki at christophedavid.org]
Sent: Sun 31/07/2005 20:23
To: pmwiki-users at pmichaud.com
Cc: Crisp, Steve [UK]
Subject: RE: [pmwiki-users] Links to files on a network share not working inboth IE and Firefox



> Thanks for your reply.  To answer your question, no it does not load if I
> enter it in the URL - this is the problem.  What works in Mozilla/Firefox
> is "file:///machine_name/directory_path/myfile.doc
> <file:///machine_name/directory_path/myfile.doc> " i.e. three slashes then
> the path.

You can probably use a localmap.txt containing, for example,

Whatever file:///

and then in your wiki page,

Whatever:machine_name/directory_path/myfile.doc

This will render as file:///machine_name/directory_path/myfile.doc

See http://www.pmwiki.org/wiki/PmWiki/CustomInterMap for details.

Christophe



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