open file on local hard drive

[firsttube]

I have a web page on my webserver that has a link in it that I want to open a file from my local hard drive using the default program for that file type. I've tried this in IE6 and Firefox but it does not work:

<a href="file:///c:/test/test.pdf">Test</a>

is there any way to do this?

thanks


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[BillyRayPreachersSon]

What happens when you click that link?

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[firsttube]

nothin happens....no errors or anything.


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[BillyRayPreachersSon]

Do you have a PDF viewer installed? If you double-click in the file from explorer, does it open?

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[BabyJeffy]

I bet that you have some kind of content blocker or security setting in place within your browsers that is causing this.

When you copy and then paste the URL (as you have shown it) into the location bar does it load the file? Maybe there are too many/too few of those slashes in there? Do they need to be escaped maybe?

Try hovering over (but not clicking) in IE and see if the URL matches that which works when you type it manually.

Basically... troubleshooting stuff.

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[johnwm]

I think Jeff is right with the content blocker. That file runs fine for me and opens the PDF as expected.

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