[Mediawiki-l] Links to files

Tue Jan 8 09:45:28 UTC 2008

I'm revisiting this problem:- 

Firefox by default prevents access to local links to outside files and
folders. I am running Firefox 2 and have installed LocaLinks which
allows the access. I can get this to work without difficulty the basic
HTML page:-

<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN"
"http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd">
<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml">
<head>
<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=iso-8859-1"
/>
<title>Test Links</title>
</head>
<a style="color: green;"
href="file:///%5C%5CPDC%5Cusers%5Call%20users%20shared%5C">\\PDC\users\a
ll users shared</a>
<body>
</body>
</html>

Works fine and opens the folder \\PDC\users\all users shared\" without
problem. However the exact same HTML:-

<a style="color: green;"
href="file:///%5C%5CPDC%5Cusers%5Call%20users%20shared%5C">\\PDC\users\a
ll users shared</a>

On my wiki pages fails with no error at all just nothing happens. I am
desperate to get this working to roll out some new features. Can anyone
suggest how I might resolve it?