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Hi guys,

I'm working on WF8105 right now and I have a very simple task - to add a hyperlink to this page on App Studio HTML Composer. Very easy, I create the hyperlink, then I create a Request... and that's where I'm stuck. Because, the idiot URL Request wants an http:// address. The link I need to use is an html file on the LAN so the address I got from them is a \\\... address.

URL Request... won't let me enter that URL. So, am I supposed to use another method to get that URL in? I tried the External Request one but it only lets me pick from within the app and its associated paths.

Thanks for your assistance.

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Anatess

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Of course it doesn't, that is not a valid URL.

You may get it to work in Internet Explorer by prepending it with file:\\ (The 3rd backslash in your example refers to the top-level on the remote file system), but not in other browsers as they consider it a security hole - probably for a very good reason.

Another option is to add the server under a (virtual) directory in your web-server, after which you can reference files in it like local URLs.


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I apologize. There are only 2 backslashes on that server name. And the AD authorization is specific to that path that contains the one html file that they gave me. Unfortunately, I don't own the thing. I only reference it. We did an ibif_ex="\\....\htmfile.htm" on it in the request tag with a sourcetype="typeUrl" and it works fine in chrome, firefox, or ie when we were still in WF7.7.

I'm trying to be a good girl and exclusively use the Composer instead of coding the thing in notepad.


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Anatess

If it used to work in WF 7 and doesn't in the version you are currently working on, please open a case with techsupport to get proper assistance with this.


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