I have tried to open a PDF file from the local disk.
For example the Location is:
E:/files/IT/cat1/cat1Notification.pdf
But during runtime the link changes to:
http://localhost:8080/Office_Automation/E:/files/IT/cat1/cat1Notification.pdf
How to do i get rid of http://localhost:8080/Office_Automation/ from the link and open the file?
I have used
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To open the local file you need to use the file scheme in your URL
As you path is a Windows path E:/files/IT/cat1/cat1Notification.pdf, the link's href needs file:/// added before the your jsp's <%=path%> variable, so that the browser knows it needs to open a local file on the user's machine.
So your link should look like this
click here
Which in your browser will resolve to file:///E:/files/IT/cat1/cat1Notification.pdf
Without the file scheme the browser assumes that your link is relative to the webpage and tries to resolve the link by making a request to your webapp. This is why you were getting http://localhost:8080/Office_Automation/E:/files/IT/cat1/cat1Notification.pdf
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I"m having an option to insert image inside CKEditor. For that i saved the image file in physical path inside the Server(Wildfly 10) folder and adding an img tag by using editor instance with (instance.insertHTML) option. Its working fine when the image was inside the server folder. If the image was outside the server path its not rendering in the editor as well as in the browser.
Help to store the image in external path (outside the Server path) to render the image in CKEditor as well as in the browser.
I'm using primefaces extension for CKEditor.
Your web application only has access to certain areas of the file system served from under the webapp. This is fundamental webapp security so a user couldn't browse your server's file system for example.
I am trying to index the file folders on my local computer using a html file. I set hyperlinks to the folders, when click the link, the internet browser (firefox in my case) lists the files contained in the folder. However, is it possible to open the file browser (linux) when click the link, rather than listing the files within the internet browser?
I do not believe this is possible because HTML controls web objects and wouldn't be able to open and search a path in a file browser. For that has to do with the physical computers file system not the internet.
If you need to me explain more just let me know
I have some PDF's sitting in a folder on my computer, is there a way to write a link to open them on to a webpage?
The main idea is when the site goes live the link will be used to download the pdfs from the folder, but obviously at a later stage the folder will be a temp folder on my website.
So at the moment i just want to open the pdfs from a link, and the final goal will be to have the links download them.
Can any one help me?
This is the file path to get to the pdf i want to link to.
C:\Users\Shaun\Documents\FormValue\CS1.pdf
How would i create the link?
If you want to have a link to a PDF, you just have to put the relative path to the file in the href attribute of an a tag. So let's say you had a folder called pdfs, with the file boom.pdf inside it, and folder called site sitting beside it, with the file site.html in it. Then all you'd have to do is put this link in the html file:
Link to a pdf
In most (all?) browsers now a days, that will open the PDF in a new tab. To download it you would right-click it and do the Save Link As thing. Just need to get the path in href right.
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If you want to use the full path to the file, you need to prefix it with file://. Then you just put it in the href the same as with a regular link, ending up with something like:
Link to a pdf
This should work with your set up, but if the pdf and the html files are stored near each other, relative URLs are still a good option. A little bit of Google work should show you how to write those.
For each PDF just do what I talk about here.
<object height="950" data="sample-report.pdf" type="application/pdf" width="860">
<p>It appears you don't have a PDF plugin for this browser.
No biggie... you can <a href="sample-report.pdf">click here to
download the PDF file.</a>
</p>
</object>
It works with most browsers and it degrades nicely.
It sounds like youre asking if you can put a link on a web site to a PDF sitting on your computer. You can't. The files have to be either on another web site or on your site's server.
If you are using ASP.NET, you can have the link point to a handler that accepts a query string identifying the file, either by file name or a hash of the file. Then the handler can look in the folder for a file that matches the pattern, read the file as a byte array, and then write those bytes to HttpResponse.
I am saving some emails on my local machine using MailBee.NET Objects in htm format. A separate folder is created for each email using email messageID on server for example
D:\Emails\GmailId1380ec660e0e656a\doc.htm
is an email downloaded from gmail. I am saving also the above mentioned path in database so I can use it later. Now I am trying to display this htm file in an iframe but it is not working. A user clicks on email which takes him to the read_email page on which I am trying to assign the path mentioned above to an iframe but the iframe remains blank.
emailMessage.Attributes.Add("src",commandReader["email_message_path"].ToString());
emailMessage is the name of iframe and commandReader is normal SqlDataReader which I am using to read the path of the file mentioned above and then assigning that path to src attribute of iframe, I have placed this code in page_load event.
But as I said Iframe remains blank. Please help me out.
Thanks.
Local files are referenced with the file URI scheme. If your email message path is only D:\Emails\... then you'll have to prepend it with file:// :
file://D:\Emails\...
Note that most browser will prevent you from including a local file from a remote website !.
Have you tried putting file:/// before the path to the file?
Like file:///D:\Emails\GmailId1380ec660e0e656a\doc.htm
I have a file uploader but it's not showing the files path (so you can only upload files that are in the same folder)
How can I make it so show's the files path (desktop/something/yes/dog.swf)
It's getting more common that browsers doesn't reveal the local path where the uploaded file was selected, and this is for most purposes a good thing. If you upload a file to a site you probably don't want any excess information to be sent along, like for example your local user name.
For you as an application developer it should not make any difference. You shouldn't rely on the local path of the file for anything. If you use the local path on the server side also, you open up a horribly wide security hole. Anyone could for example upload a file with the path "c:\windows\explorer.exe", and if you save the file there you are in trouble...
If I'm reading this right, that's a client side browser issue, and not something you can set in your code.
It's also browser-specific, so we would have to know the browser version to tell how to do it on YOUR browser, and that would do nothing for other people accessing the web site via their browser.
If you want to ask how to set it on your browser, I would recommend that you ask that on the Super-User site. (See the links at the bottom of this page.)
Did you try to upload a file from another folder? I've noticed that no path is shown but it still works just fine.