The protocol is not associated with any program

[killerboy]

I am trying to make a link to an Access database which is located on my local drive C. To do this, I put the following code in my page:

<a href="C:\\my.mdb">file</a>

then I get the following message:

"the browser can not open this address because the protocol (C) is not associated with any program"

but when I put the database in the same file as the project's, it works. Where does the problem lies while linking to the Access database?

[absolute55]

Instead use url as like:

file:///c:/my.mdb

and see if it works. Also make sure that your mdb file really is on C:?

[killerboy]

Yes it is on my C drive. And I also tried the url of my file as file:/// ... and pasted into the address bar of my web browser, but it only displays a small window which asks me if I want to save the file my.mdb! But I don't want to do this. Instead I want to link my local drive C to an Access database. Is this possible?

[Reegan]

Yeah, because if you want to access your webpage you must use http://. Its quite normal that no browser will default to authorize you to access links file://, its a huge security hole otherwise.

If you look at the error console of web browser, you should have an error:

Security Error: Content at http://127.0.0.1/view-it/test.html may not load or link to file:///C:/Temp/Upload.txt.