| Using Netscape Gold, I added a link to a document that pointed to a
network drive. I got the message:
file: ///H|/Frivers/MISC/Contacts.txt
is on a different device than the current document.
Link will not work if document is accessed remotely.
Do you want to use this link anyway?
I said yes, and tested it using Fastrack, and sure enough, it would
work locally on the server, but not from a different system.
What is the technical impediment to this, and are there any
workarounds?
I had hoped to use the centralized web server to serve up access to
files stored on several remote servers. Unless there is a workaround,
the direct route won't work.
What about writing CGI scripts that simply do a DOS "copy" of the
contents of the remote files into the http output stream? Will I have
the same problem?
If that doesn't work, what about copying the file in realtime to the
local disk before serving it, to ensure a fresh copy? Will the same
problem prevent this technique from working as well?
jeb
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