create Html anchor to file on the c drive

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could you tell me how to create a link to a file on the c drive(local machine)

or a link to download a file from the hard drive

this doesn t seems to work

<a href="C:/Documents and Settings/Giga/My Documents/NetBeansProjects/JavaRssFeed/RssFeed/build/web/WEB-INF/Xml/Gaetano Feed.xml" class="font18">C:/Documents and Settings/Giga/My Documents/NetBeansProjects/JavaRssFeed/RssFeed/build/web/WEB-INF/Xml/Gaetano Feed.xml</a>

The file is created by my application on the user machine, then all the files in the folder are displayed given the user the possibility to view in a browser

whith it doesn t work i mean it doesn t do anything thanks

Answer 1

<a href="file:///C:/Documents and Settings/Giga/My Documents/NetBeansProjects/JavaRssFeed/RssFeed/build/web/WEB-INF/Xml/Gaetano Feed.xml" class="font18">C:/Documents and Settings/Giga/My Documents/NetBeansProjects/JavaRssFeed/RssFeed/build/web/WEB-INF/Xml/Gaetano Feed.xml</a>

Answer 2

The browser prevents linking to local files via hyperlinks. The only way you can access the file is if you serve it via a web server. Or type the URL on the address bar.