How to give a link to a directory in HTML?

Question

Good days,

My problem is giving a link to a directory, in an inner network. It is working for IE 6 but i need to do this for especially for IE7 and IE8.

My internal Link is like that: \CompName\Report\

I tried to do this with : file://.... but it didn't work. Any ideas?

Answer 1

There are several different ways to use the file URI schema and it does respect relative paths.

They are however, platform specific, so may only work on one of windows/mac/linux.

Make sure you get the relative path correctly.

file://CompName/Report

You may need to double up any / for each "\" you have - UNC paths start with \\, so this would translate to ////, so:

file://///CompName/Report

Should work, assuming it is a shared directory on a computer called CompName and that you have the correct permissions to access it.

Answer 2

This should work:

file://///CompName/Report/

Note that IE8 (and I believe IE7 as well) will open the link in an explorer window (not Internet Explorer).