On Thu, May 22, 2014 at 1:28 PM, John Gordon <gor...@panix.com> wrote: > In <6a3c5b20-bce5-4c95-b27f-3840e9cc7...@googlegroups.com> Aseem Bansal > <asmbans...@gmail.com> writes: > >> But I hit a snag today that webbrowser's won't allow client to open >> hyperlinks with file protocol. I have both offline and online bookmarks >> so that was a problem for me. > > What do you mean by saying "webbrowser's won't allow client to open > hyperlinks with file protocol"? Of course they do. > > My web browser works just fine with links such as this: > > <a href="file:///C:/Users/gordonj/Documents/foo.html">foo.html</a>
It works if the document that contains the link is also opened from the local filesystem, but browsers will refuse to follow the link if it was served over http. -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
