Strange Behavior On File:/// link in Web Page - New Issue


I have written an HTML page that is emailed to end-users. The HTML page has
a table in it with a row that conains a hyperlink. The hyperlink is pointed
at a file on their server. The HTML file worked for me on my machine until
recently. We have been debugging this and it appears that Windows XP,
Outlook or IE (Long version: 6.029.2180.xpsp_sp2_gdr.050301-1519) is
conspiring to do the following:

- If you save the HTML file from the email to your local drive, it CHANGES
the File://C:... to File:///C:.... Note the extra forward slash. In my
script that generates this page, it is ONLY including two forward slashes.
- If I manually edit the HTML file to reflect either 2 forward slashes (or
one or none), when I hover my cursor over the hyperlink, the status bar in
IE STILL shows the path with File:///, having inserted as many forward
slashes as it needs to get to the three.

I will paste below the TR section. Does anyone know what is happening?

<TR>
<TD align=middle colSpan=7><FONT size=5>Please click on the hyperlink
below to bring up the Sample of How This Page Works case in
The program. (DO NOT CLICK THE LINK IF THE PROGRAM IS OPEN.)<BR>You
will then
double click on the Script in the Case Explorer titled:<BR><B><A
href="file:C:/x.txt">Text Document</A></B>.
<P></FONT></P></TD></TR>

The REAL problem, though, is when you click the hyperlink, nothing happens.
It's as if it wasn't there!


I just downloaded FireFox and tried this. It, too, shows the
File:///c:/x.txt, w/ the extra forward slash, in the status bar...but when I
click it, it opens the file in the browser window. (It does NOT launch my
text editor, though.) The funny thing is that when I point it to a
proprietary formatted file, the one that is supposed to launch the a program
from Windows...instead of launching the program, it opens the file in the
browser window. But, if I navigate to it in my Windows Explorer and
double-click it, it launches the application properly.

Funny that it can make sense out of the three slashes...and that IT also
adds a slash to what my html file has.

Does anyone know what's going on here? Has anyone else seen this problem?

Thanks,
Paul




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