That is usually only good for your local machine. Try
file:/// (yes 3
slashes) in your browser, you should see your root filesystem.
-Bill
On Fri, 2005-02-11 at 02:29 -0700, Craig White wrote:
> Playing with a wiki setup and was thinking that a number of files could
> be grouped on a wiki page (or for that matter in any html document) and
> files can be referenced - i.e. a Microsoft Word Document or Open Office
> Document, etc.
>
> The problem with an http reference is that it is really slow to get
> opened in your word processory...
>
> For example...
>
> http://SERVER/files/test-document.sxw
>
> when I click this, it launches a new browser windows (reasonably
> provided by wiki), downloads the document to my /tmp directory (similar
> on Windows and Macintosh) and then launches application and finally,
> opens the document from it's temporary location.
>
> This process takes maybe 20 - 30 seconds.
>
> So I vaguely recalled that there was something like
> file://SERVER/files/test-document.sxw but I don't recall where and that
> clearly doesn't work - at least not universally as browsers complain
> that 'file' isn't a known service.
>
> Does anybody have a suggestion on a method to accomplish delivering
> files from an http server (or more specifically a wiki) that is fast and
> somewhat if not totally universal across OS Types/browsers.
>
> Thanks
>
> Craig
>
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