Relative or Absolute Linking to local network

Hi,

What you are looking for may not be possible.

Your server is sending a html page back to the users browser with a link. If you click the link, it needs to tell the browser from where to get the file.
http://WhichServer/WhichFolder/WhatsTheFilename.Extension

If you do not provide the WhichServer information to the browser, how should it know where to get the file?

There are 2 things you can do:
1) Masking
The link in your page could open another page on your server that actually opens the file via javascript
=> adds occasional problems, and still not totally secure
(google for: javascript window.open)
2) Tunneling
For this, you have to create CF scripts on your server that would get the file from your network servers, and then would provide a temporary link to the customer where they can download it
(google for: cfcontent)

cheers,
fober

You could try a findnocase() to get the position of \\, then strip off
everthing before it

Steve

"jamie61880" <webforumsuser@macromedia.com> wrote in message
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> Hi. I am trying to put a link on a web page that we use internally at work
> using cold fusion to open a file that is on our internal network. I'm just
> wondering how I could get this work? What it's doing when I create an a
> href is
> it's doing a relative link, but I don't want that address to show up in
> the
> link. Is there a way to strip out that part of the address? I will not
> show the
> entire path, but just a little so you can understand what I'm talking
> about. I
> want just this to show in the address bar when I click the link:
> \\Server\Server_Folder\Sales What shows up instead for the link is:
> http://192.168.0.2....\\Server\Server_Folder\Sales
> How do I get rid of the http://192.168.0.2...?
> Can someone please help me? Thanks.
>
> Andy
>