href file doesn t work

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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

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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

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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

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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   lt a href  file    K  yourfile pdf  gt yourfile pdf lt  a gt    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    lt a href  file    C  Temp test pdf  gt test pdf lt  a gt    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   lt a href  file    K  AmberCRO-SOP 2011-07-05 SOP-SOP-3 0 pdf  gt test pdf lt  a gt   lt a href  AmberCRO-SOP 2011-07-05 SOP-SOP-3 0 pdf  gt test pdf lt  a gt   lt a href  2011-07-05 SOP-SOP-3 0 pdf  gt test pdf lt  a gt    Note that http   file    K  AmberCRO 20SOP 2011-07-05 SOP-SOP-3 0 pdf is a malformed

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Although the ffile      exe used to work  for example - some versions of early html 4  it appears html 5 disallows this  Tested using the following    lt a href  ffile     lt path name gt   lt filename gt  exe  TestLink  a gt    lt a href  ffile    lt path name gt   lt filename gt  exe  TestLink  a gt    lt a href  ffile   lt path name gt   lt filename gt  exe  TestLink  a gt    lt a href  ffile  lt path name gt   lt filename gt  exe  TestLink  a gt    lt a href  ffile       lt path name gt   lt filename gt  exe  TestLink  a gt    lt a href  file    lt path name gt   lt filename gt  exe  TestLink  a gt    lt a href  file   lt path name gt   lt filename gt  exe  TestLink  a gt    lt a href  file  lt path name gt   lt filename gt  exe  TestLink  a gt    lt a href  ffile       lt path name gt   lt filename gt  exe  TestLink  a gt    as well as     1  substituted the  ffile  with just  file  2  all the above variations with the http    prefixed before the ffile or file   The best I could see was there is a possibility that if one wanted to open  edit  or save the file  it could be accomplished   However  the exec file would not execute otherwise

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