[RESOLVED] Link to file

[Piranha]

I have a piece of html that I want to link to a file on my computer. Unfortunatley I can't get it to work as normal.

<a href="file:///c:/file.txt">A file</a>

When I copy the path and past in the URL bar it works, but when I click the link nothing happens, it just stays on the page with the link.

Does anyone know if it is possible to make a link to a local file? Any link to a solution? Maybe even a solution?

Additional information: The system is Windows XP sp2, browser Firefox 3 or IE 7. The http page runs on localhost port 8080 (http://localhost:8080/...).

[coldwerturkey]

each browser/os platform has their own form of linking to local files. additionally each browser/os has an option to ignore links to local files as a safety percussion - which is why your page isn't moving.

[NogDog]

This worked for me (Windows Vista), using only 2 slashes after the "file:":

<a href="file://c:/wamp/www/test/test.txt">test</a>

[Piranha]

Thanks guys.

I couldn't get it to work, so I simply placed the files in the server instead. Not pretty, but it works good enough.