benaust Posted May 5, 2010 Share Posted May 5, 2010 Hi There I have an html file with some hyperlinks. These hyperlinks are pointing to my pc to some designated folder, let’s say "C:/X-Folder/Y-File.pdf" The html file is on the server on the internet like any website page, and when I open this html page in my browser on the net, I like the hyperlinks to open the local files in the above example for instance. Anyone can help? Any work around or ideas? Thanks in advance. Ben Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PFMaBiSmAd Posted May 5, 2010 Share Posted May 5, 2010 A web page who's origin is not the local PC cannot open links/src to local files on the PC, without turning off browser security settings or installing a java applet (also requires the java VM) or installing an IE ActiveX component. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
benaust Posted June 16, 2010 Author Share Posted June 16, 2010 Very Right, Specially IE Browsers. We had to do a workaround. We did this by installing a small apache - PHP server like "Server2Go" on local PC, Then used the URL to pint to http://127.0.0.1/MyFolder/TestFile.pdf for example which is the localhost address. Using HTTP protocol we got it to work. Offcourse now there is a small apache running locally on this PC. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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