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

Patrick R. Michaud pmichaud at pobox.com
Tue Feb 1 09:42:11 CST 2005


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?

Pm



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