* From: Scott Ferguson <prettyfly.producti...@gmail.com> * Date: Sat, 11 Jun 2011 23:23:30 +1000 > Now that's confusing me too! I've never had to modify anything to get a > web browser to load local files.... or to load links from local files > either to local links or online links.
Again, we're at crossed purposes. The problem isn't local. Here is my explanation again, step by step. * I sit in front of the console of dalton. * Using Iceweasel in Squeeze, open this. "http://members.shaw.ca/peasthope/#Links"; It's public. Have a look. * There I see the link with anchor file:///Category2.html and target the same. * Click on that anchor. I expect dalton:/home/peter/Category2.html open but nothing happens except for the message to the Iceweasel error console. Ref. earlier message. Is there a syntax such as dalton.invalid:file:///Category2.html ? * Save the page "http://members.shaw.ca/peasthope/"; onto storage of Dalton. * Open that page on Dalton. * Now in this image from the local copy, click on the anchor file:///Category2.html. * Now Category2.html opens. > ... for it to work *I* would have to have a > file called Category2.html in my / directory.... The steps above demonstrate that the link from dalton:/Category2.html to dalton:/home/peter/Category2.html works. > members.shaw.ca gives you an account for peasthope - in your home > directory is a directory called public_html which is the root of webserver. > eg. /home/peasthope/public_html > You are probably free to create other directories beneath your home > eg. /home/peasthope/stuff A reasonable hypothesis. Normally files are put there with "ftp://peasth...@ftp.shaw.ca/";. Only files are there. No sub-directory. But I don't see the relevance. > > Any better ideas to configure for my case where the file URI link is in > > members.shaw.ca/peasthope and the browser is on dalton? > > You can't. That I know of. The link cannot be relative. I can't think of > how to use an absolute link across your network (firewall, network protocols > etc). As mentioned a few days back, the third of those file URIs "file:Category2.html" works for ETHNO. Is this only a quirk of the ETHNO interface? Doesn't make sense that Iceweasel doesn't know what to do when a link targeting file:///Category2.html is clicked. What could be simpler? Should be only a security issue. The source code will explain of course. If it can be comprehended. Ugg. * From: Scott Ferguson <prettyfly.producti...@gmail.com> * Date: Sun, 12 Jun 2011 01:14:36 +1000 > http://pe...@members.shaw.ca/ (from your policy in the last post) > A login on a site with no authentication?? Authentication is not necessary to look at a public Web page. Regards, ... Peter E. -- Telephone 1 360 450 2132. bcc: peasthope at shaw.ca Shop pages http://carnot.yi.org/ accessible as long as the old drives survive. Personal pages http://members.shaw.ca/peasthope/ . -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/171057035.74067.62627@heaviside.invalid
