如何在C：上从Intranet打开文件夹

Question

I've been tackling this for 2 days now without success. Yesterday I posted a question here to which I received a couple of suggestions which I didn't really understand.

I asked for clarification and have had no response yet.

Either:

1. I'm not explaining myself very well.
2. The solution can't be found
3. Anybody who may be able to help has not yet seen it.

OK - here goes - nice 'n' simple....

I'm using a XAMPP server on WIN7 with FireFox.

1. At my browser address bar I can type : file:///C:/xampp/htdocs/folder1/subfolder1/, which is sort of OK

2. I put the following code inside an anchor in a page and run it from XAMPP/htdocs folder : href="folder1/subfolder1/">Go to subfolder1, yields similar sort of result

3. At my browser again I type : file:///C:/folder2/subfolder2/ and have the same sort of result as 1.

My question is what should my anchor look like to get to C:/folder2/subfolder2/

Is there something I am not understanding?

If someone out there can post a 'fiddle' or show me an example I'm sure I could work through this

Answer 1

This doesn't work by default because allowing someone to access the local file system that the server is running on from outside the computer would be a security breach. You can type it in the URL field because your browser is running on the same machine and has access to the drive.

If you want to open it from a link inside of an HTML file from a client, you'll need to write a program that runs on the server (PHP is a good language to use) that would receive the request and display the folder contents. Of course this wouldn't a very safe thing to do, but the URL might look like this:

http://yourserver/showfolder.php?dir=c:/folder1/subfolder2

Then you just need to write showfolder.php and have it use the parameter dir and respond with html to display the folder contents. Again, though it's possible to do this, you should think hard about why you want to and what information you're making available outside of the machine that others should not see.

I think the thing you're not understanding is what program is interpretting the url in each case. Whey you type file://... into the browser, it's the browser doing the work of finding the content on disk and showing it to you. When you use a url, that's an http request which asks your server to do the work.