Workaround for href=“file://///…” in Firefox

Question

On an intranet site, let\'s say I want to link to a file on a share using UNC, at:

\\\\servername\\foldername\\filename.rtf

It seems the co

Answer 1

Browsers like Firefox refuse to open the file:// link when the parent HTML page itself is served using a different protocol like http://.

Your best bet is to configure your webserver to provide the network mapped file as a web resource so that it can be accessed by http:// from the same server instead of by file://.

Since it's unclear which webserver you're using, I can't go in detail as to how to achieve this.