How can I display an image from the local machine on a webpage

Question

Here\'s the scenario: I have two machines on a LAN network. One of them is acting as a web server. When the second, client machine browser (Firefox) makes a request from the

Answer 1

In most recent browsers, links to local files ( file:/// ) do not open, for security purposes. In your case, the browser does not display an image that resides on a file on your hard disk. This reason also explains why it works when you save your page locally.