[pmwiki-users] Referencing documents NOT in uploads on an internal PmWiki

[Sandy]

Sounds like your users would then have to set their browsers the same 
way. Ugh.

Sandy

Patrick R. Michaud wrote:

> 
> Different browsers expect different forms of the file: link.  Some
> browsers expect three slashes, while others expect one -- it's very
> inconsistent.  Find what form of link does work in the browser
> and then try that.
> 
> 
>>Under Firefox 1.5.0.1, nothing happens except that the status line reads
>>done after a second.
>>
>>Under IE 6.0.2, I get an error page for "network not found".  Has anybody
>>done this?
> 
> 
> It has been done in the past, yes.  Also, for security reasons most 
> modern browsers (including Firefox and IE) don't honor "file:"
> urls if the source of the current page is something other than a
> local file on disk.  
> 
> In Firefox, there's a security setting of some sort that has to be
> changed in the browser to enable "file:" to work.
> 
> In IE, you're getting "network not found" because IE is thinking
> that the thing coming following the double-backslash is a server
> name.  Try adding another slash (or taking one away).
> 
> Pm
>