Re: Local vs. remote files on CDROM-based server

Maxwell Lol wrote:
I have built a perl-based web server that will reside on a CDROM, and has
the ability to search the text files on the CDROM. I'll used
ActiveState's perl to make a *.exe file.


The problem I have is described here:

http://kb.mozillazine.org/Links_to_local_pages_don%27t_work
Where Firefox won't allow users to link from http://localhost:8080/ to a
file:///

Essentially people can click on a search result, but the browserr
does not open the file. The user has to copy and paste the URI.

Is there any recommended practice to work around this issue?
Something with Javascript?


So don't use file:///file.txt links, use http://file.txt or relative links, e.g., /folder/file.txt

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