No working link to network files

Question

For an intranet solution I would like to add a bunch of rather static links in Drupal to network files which change from time to time and are maintained by people not using Drupal.

To achieve this I used the link functionality of CKeditor: Protocol URL file:///s:\Gloss.xls target popup window

When I throw file:///s:\Gloss.xls into any browsers address field it works perfectly (tried in IE, chrome and firefox) but from a Drupal node clicking on the link explained above, the browsers inspection reveals Not allowed to load local resource: file:///s:\Gloss.xls in chrome and firefox, only in IE it works.

What do I need to do to get it working in chrome or, at least in firefox?

Answer 1

I think the trouble comes from your browser. See the answer from this question : How can I create a link to a local file on a locally-run web page?

Some browsers, like modern versions of Chrome, will even refuse to cross from the http protocol to the file protocol, so you'd better make sure you open this locally using the file protocol if you want to do this stuff at all.

Maybe another approach is to make a script witch will get the file from the server side and send it to the client in streaming.