Re: Problem with opening files from http://localhost - Win XP
From: jib (jib_at_discussions.microsoft.com)
Date: 09/11/04
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Date: Sat, 11 Sep 2004 06:43:06 -0700
again thank you
i am a step closer
after your reassurance that the problem wasnt with XP or IIS i started to
look elsewhere.
i know that people dont like the idea of linking to local files......
but as a test i went to
http://www.jib23.co.uk/linked.asp?Disc=1001&KeyWord=
the first link on the page (light gray speaker 2nd down in left hand column)
has the link
<A HREF="file:///Z:/1000/1001/Track01.wav">
so i created the file Track01.wav in the correct path on my machine
z:/1000/1001
and i had the same problem - the link does nothing
when searching for solutions i have seen a lot of comments re XP&SP2 and
Firewalls causing problems. I have turned windows firewall off but nothing
has changed.
any other ideas
many thanks
jib
"David Wang [Msft]" wrote:
> First, this is not a roblem with Windows XP nor IIS. This is purely a
> configuration problem that you should solve so that the client behaves the
> way you want.
>
> Now, creating a web page with links that look like file:/// -- i.e. local
> file links -- is pretty useless because only you can browse the link
> successfully. Such links presume that the remote user visiting your site
> already has your site's contents downloaded locally to their machine --
> which is unlikely to be the case. To fix this, please make sure that the
> href points to something that is always accessible to the remote user --
> like a valid URL.
>
> Next, when you click a link, you are telling the browser "please download
> the contents of this link to my local machine". Note: no one is "executing"
> this link, or "opening the link in you editor", etc -- the browser is merely
> making an HTTP request to the server for that resource, and the web server
> is simply returning the contents of the resource as-is.
>
> Modern browsers, after they obtain the contents of the link, will parse the
> Content-Type header that was sent with the link's contents and then decide
> what to do with it. If the content-type is "text/html", the browser will
> merely display the downloaded file as HTML -- regardless of the file's
> extension. Similarly, .WAV files have a content-type of "audio/wav", which
> causes the browser to look up its local definition of
> MIMEMap-to-Handler-Application mapping and decide what to do with it.
>
> Finally, browsers have security features that do not automatically "execute"
> content downloaded from servers -- that is, even though .EXE files have a
> content-type of ".exe,application/octet-stream", once a browser downloads it
> all, it isn't going to automatically execute it on the client. Instead, the
> browser will ask you "should I save it, open it, or do nothing?"
>
>
> Getting back to your question -- from a shell's perspective, the same
> webpage (index.html), opened from your desktop (a folder) and
> C:\inetpub\wwwroot (another folder) is no different. Since you claim that
> the same page has different behavior, I think you are not "Loading" the file
> identically. The UI may look the same, but one is probably handled by the
> shell without going through a web server, while the other one is going
> through the web server somehow. The latter case will require a valid
> Content-Type (you have to have the correct MIMEType registered) and likely
> won't behave identically to the local shell case.
>
> ALso, what SP of W2K and WXP are we talking about?
>
> --
> //David
> IIS
> This posting is provided "AS IS" with no warranties, and confers no rights.
> //
> "jib" <jib@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
> news:772C65DD-D0ED-4963-8659-B951BE24F04B@microsoft.com...
> Hi
>
> I have a webpage with links along the lines of
>
> test.wav
>
> if i save the webpage (index.html) on my desktop and load it from there and
> click the link the file opens in my chosen editor - soundforge
>
> if i save the webpage in c:/inetpub/wwwroot and load it from there and click
> the link nothing happens
>
> i have this running under Win2k and am looking to make it work on Windows
> XP.
>
> can anyone help??
>
> many thanks
>
> jib
>
>
>
>
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