Can't Open PDFs using URL command line argument

On windows, why does this work:

acrord32.exe //server/myfile.pdf

But this doesn't:

"There was an error opening this document. The filename, directory name, or volume label syntax is incorrect."

However you can File->Open using a http url just fine but just not from a command line.

Can someone successfully open a pdf from the command line using HTTP path?

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Many Windows apps take a file name on the command line

\\server\point\file.pdf

c:\tmp\file.pdf

are both normal Windows file names in all apps.

URLs are not windows file names. That would be an entirely different feature.

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