Hyperlink to file on shared drive

1. No, hosting the file on a web/ftp server is not possible.
2. Yes I know about the Jump-to-URL section.
3. Only http. https, ftp, mailto and news work. file does not.
4. Embedding Javascript (window.open('file://foo/bar.txt')) works, but
only if hardcoded, which is useless.
Is there a particular reason for this? Is this going to be fixed? My
client has thousands of files that lie on shared drive. I need to
create links to these in a manner such as:
<a href="http://links.10026.com/?link=file://s:\directory\file.txt">link</a>
I don't understand why you would limit the anchor tag? According to
RFC http://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc1738.txt (This document specifies a
Uniform Resource Locator (URL), the syntax and semantics of formalized
information for location and access of resources via the Internet.)
You can state the following:
...
ftp File Transfer protocol
http Hypertext Transfer Protocol
mailto Electronic mail address
news USENET news
file Host-specific file names
...
Yes, I know that:
"The file URL scheme is used to designate files accessible on a
particular host computer. This scheme, unlike most other URL schemes,
does not designate a resource that is universally accessible over the
Internet"
But the thing is, MS Reports are for private networks, as well as
public ones. Why were the specs not followed?
Regards,
Roy AssalyAnyone? Bueller? Bueller? So I take it's impossible. Nobody in
Microsoft land knows if this will be fixed?
Roy Assaly wrote:
> 1. No, hosting the file on a web/ftp server is not possible.
> 2. Yes I know about the Jump-to-URL section.
> 3. Only http. https, ftp, mailto and news work. file does not.
> 4. Embedding Javascript (window.open('file://foo/bar.txt')) works, but
> only if hardcoded, which is useless.
> Is there a particular reason for this? Is this going to be fixed? My
> client has thousands of files that lie on shared drive. I need to
> create links to these in a manner such as:
> <a href="http://links.10026.com/?link=file://s:\directory\file.txt">link</a>
> I don't understand why you would limit the anchor tag? According to
> RFC http://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc1738.txt (This document specifies a
> Uniform Resource Locator (URL), the syntax and semantics of formalized
> information for location and access of resources via the Internet.)
> You can state the following:
> ...
> ftp File Transfer protocol
> http Hypertext Transfer Protocol
> mailto Electronic mail address
> news USENET news
> file Host-specific file names
> ...
> Yes, I know that:
> "The file URL scheme is used to designate files accessible on a
> particular host computer. This scheme, unlike most other URL schemes,
> does not designate a resource that is universally accessible over the
> Internet"
> But the thing is, MS Reports are for private networks, as well as
> public ones. Why were the specs not followed?
> Regards,
> Roy Assaly