Re: <A HREF="File://c:/x.txt"> Does NOT launch text editor

It is pointing to a file on my C:\ drive...on which I am an Administrator. I
got the following in response to another poste, elsewhere. It makes
sense...although it doesn't provide a solution. Any comments:

-----------Excerpt from "Sparda"----------------------
I have encountered this befor, i was trying to make a web page to
induce paranoia in non-computer litirate people by opening explorer
(on there computer) and having it naviagte to C: with the sentance
"Look, I have all your data!" above the link, this is done (by
microsoft) to stop web pages from accessing and or running programs on
the local computer using the file:// protacall. So basicly Microsoft
made it so that the file:// Protacal (what ever it is) can only be
used by web pages that are alredy opened using file://, perhaps moving
the page to the trusted area will fix/get round this problem.

Also, the txt file opens in firefox becasue firefox recognises it as a
plain text file and is able to display it correctly, hence no need for
notepad, if you wish for it to open that file in notepad you would
have to set an asosiation in firefox with that file exptension so
firefox will open the file in notepad.

---------End Excerpt from "Sparda"----------------------


"Rob Parsons" <iecustomizer@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
news:uXgRENusFHA.3908@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Check your share permissions on the root folder of the server. If it only
> just started to happen then it would be reasonable to assume that it has
> been as a result of recent changes.
> "Paul Engel" <pengel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
> news:%23Pe%23SvisFHA.3640@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
>> 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 and others until
>> recently.
>>
>> The following is the link:
>>
>> <A HREF="file://C:/x.txt">Text Document</A>
>>
>> When you hover your mouse over this link in the Browser, the status bar
>> shows:
>> file:///c:/x.txt, as hit should. But, when you click the link, nothing
>> happens. My text editor
>> does not launch this ifle. The file is in the root of C:, and, as I said,
>> this used to work.
>>
>> 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, but it looks like it's hard-coded to open txt files
> in
>> the browser
>> and you can't alter the behavior.)
>>
>> Does anyone know what's going on here? Does this have to do w/ some new
>> security patch? Is there a way to fix this? Has anyone else seen this
>> problem?
>>
>> Thanks,
>> Paul
>>
>>
>>
>>
>
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