Can't Open PDFs using URL command line argument

[TheRealbigE]

On windows, why does this work:

acrord32.exe //server/myfile.pdf

But this doesn't:

acrord32.exe https://www.xyz.com/myfile.pdf

"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?

[Bernd Alheit]

Acrobat Reader doesn't support this.

[Test Screen Name]

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.