Link to UNC/local resource in HTML

Question

I want to link local UNC path (windows network path) from my html. I tried many variations in anchor tag like,

 1. <a href="\\\\somemachine\\path">link</a>
 2. <a href="file://\\somemachine\\path">link</a>
 3. <a href="file://///\\somemachine\\path">link</a>
 4. <a href="\\somemachine\path">link</a>

But, nothing seems working. I have chromium nightly build and also tried t on Firefox. Is there is any path combination that can work or if through javascript, it is possible?

Look at the following comment on firefox - makes sense to me to forbid this... http://kb.mozillazine.org/Firefox_:_Issues_:_Links_to_Local_Pages_Don%27t_Work — home, Sep 15 '11 at 17:47

score 1 · Answer 1 · answered Sep 15 '11 at 17:50

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The correct URL schema to link against to local file system is

file://

after that, the rest of the UNC path follows. You must replace all backslashes by forward slashes and add one / to denote the file system root:

file://///somemachine/path

A shorter variant works in IE and Google Chrome:

file://somemachine/path

answered Sep 15 '11 at 17:50

Tomalak

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From browser's address bar it is working fine but not helping when accessing from anchor. – Gagandeep Singh Sep 19 '11 at 11:49
@Gagandeep: This (``) works for me. Can you post the HTML you use? Also note that spaces and other special characters must be properly encoded. – Tomalak Sep 19 '11 at 12:58

score 0 · Answer 2 · answered Sep 15 '11 at 17:51

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Like this:

file://somemachine//path

answered Sep 15 '11 at 17:51

Eric

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Link to UNC/local resource in HTML

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