File protocol designator

[bamboo]

I am wondering if there is an industry standard protocol when linking to a file on a 'file' server from a webpage. In our company we keep our web application files and document files (.doc, .ppt, .xls, etc.) separate. File servers/Web servers. We quite often link to file servers using the following protocol designator:

<a href="file://remotefileserver/folder/document">document</a>

This works fine in IE and Netscape, but not Mozilla. I was curious as to what others use in this situation. I've seen file://// and also just \\remotefileserver\folder\document used.

 

[BillyRayPreachersSon]

Have you tried:

file://\\remotefileserver\folder\document

Hope this helps,
Dan


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[Castor66]

file://\\server\folder\bookmarks.html works for me in IE but not in Firefox.
file:///\\server\folder\bookmarks.html works for me in Firefox and in IE. It got translated differently in the browsers:

Firefox changed it to : file:///%5C%5Cserver%5Cfolder%5Cbookmarks.html
and IE changed it to : \\server\folder\bookmarks.html

The 'file:///' seems to work across both. Weird! I don't have Netscape so couldn't check.