href file doesn t work

Question

I have a problem with      href  file     Well I want to point a link in html to file  in browser if I write like    file    K  filename pdf   It works to open a file  but if I point it to         href  http   file    K  AmberCRO 20SOP 2011-07-05 SOP-SOP-3 0 pdf     It doesn t work  link is changed to   file   K  AmberCRO 20SOP 2011-07-05 SOP-SOP-3 0 pdf   The colon after file disappears  Any suggestions as to what to do

User · Accepted Answer

The reason your URL is being rewritten to file///K:/AmberCRO%20SOP/2011-07-05/SOP-SOP-3.0.pdf is because you specified http://file://

The http:// at the beginning is the protocol being used, and your browser is stripping out the second colon (:) because it is invalid.

Note

If you link to something like

<a href="file:///K:/yourfile.pdf">yourfile.pdf</a>

The above represents a link to a file called k:/yourfile.pdf on the k: drive on the machine on which you are viewing the URL.

You can do this, for example the below creates a link to C:\temp\test.pdf

<a href="file:///C:/Temp/test.pdf">test.pdf</a>

By specifying file:// you are indicating that this is a local resource. This resource is NOT on the internet.

Most people do not have a K:/ drive.

But, if this is what you are trying to achieve, that's fine, but this is not how a "typical" link on a web page works, and you shouldn't being doing this unless everyone who is going to access your link has access to the (same?) K:/drive (this might be the case with a shared network drive).

You could try

<a href="file:///K:/AmberCRO-SOP/2011-07-05/SOP-SOP-3.0.pdf">test.pdf</a>
<a href="AmberCRO-SOP/2011-07-05/SOP-SOP-3.0.pdf">test.pdf</a>
<a href="2011-07-05/SOP-SOP-3.0.pdf">test.pdf</a>

Note that http://file:///K:/AmberCRO%20SOP/2011-07-05/SOP-SOP-3.0.pdf is a malformed

User · Answer

20 is the space between AmberCRO SOP   Try -   href  http   file    K  AmberCRO SOP 2011-07-05 SOP-SOP-3 0 pdf    Or rename the folder as AmberCRO-SOP and write it as -   href  http   file    K  AmberCRO-SOP 2011-07-05 SOP-SOP-3 0 pdf

User · Answer

Share your folder for  everyone  or some specific group and try this    x000D   x000D   lt a href  file   YOURSERVERNAME AmberCRO 20SOP 2011-07-05 SOP-SOP-3 0 pdf  gt  Download PDF  lt  a gt   x000D   x000D   x000D

User · Answer

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