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Heinrich Moser
Hello!
In my intranet web application (running on http://myIntranetServer/ or
http://localhost/) I need the following functionality: The user clicks
on a button, link or image (doesn't matter) and some directory (e.g.
C:\temp) opens up in IE.
This works perfectly fine if the directory is UNC:
<a href="file://server/share/folder/">folder on server/share</a>
If the directory is on the local hard disk (and the web page
containing this link is accessed via http rather than a local file
URL), nothing happens:
<a href="file:///c|/temp/">local temp folder</a>
Trying the latter with JavaScript (window.location = ...) yields an
"access denied" error. Using HTTP redirect shows the same behavior.
It looks like I've run into some kind of IE security feature. Security
zone is "local intranet" and custom security settings are as low as
they can be. Any idea how to solve that problem?
Thanks,
Heinzi
In my intranet web application (running on http://myIntranetServer/ or
http://localhost/) I need the following functionality: The user clicks
on a button, link or image (doesn't matter) and some directory (e.g.
C:\temp) opens up in IE.
This works perfectly fine if the directory is UNC:
<a href="file://server/share/folder/">folder on server/share</a>
If the directory is on the local hard disk (and the web page
containing this link is accessed via http rather than a local file
URL), nothing happens:
<a href="file:///c|/temp/">local temp folder</a>
Trying the latter with JavaScript (window.location = ...) yields an
"access denied" error. Using HTTP redirect shows the same behavior.
It looks like I've run into some kind of IE security feature. Security
zone is "local intranet" and custom security settings are as low as
they can be. Any idea how to solve that problem?
Thanks,
Heinzi