URL to link to a file

[hd181a]

I have some JS code that reads URLs file links from a database and creates link the the files on a web page. It works fine in IE 6 but now I want it to work in Firefox. The URLs I need to handle are:
file:\\Server\Share\Directory\File.ext
file:\\\\Server\Share\Directory\File.ext
file://Server/Share/Directory/File.ext

I have figured out if I use 5 backslashes it will work in both browsers. I am having problems replacing the slashes. I think they might be getting interpretded as escape characters. Does anybody have some code to make these links work in both browsers?

Thanks,
Paul

[acoder]

Can you show the code that you're having problems with.

[hd181a]

Can you show the code that you're having problems with.

Here is the code.

    function fnNewWindow<%=lintGadgetID%>(lstrurl,ablnWindowStatus)
    {
        var lstrPageName;   //variable to hold Page name.
        var lstrnewWind;      //variable to hold Window status.
        lstrPageName = lstrurl;    
 
        if(lstrPageName.substring(0,3).toUpperCase()=="WWW")
            lstrPageName = "http://"+lstrPageName;
 
        if    ((lstrPageName.substring(0,4).toUpperCase()!="HTTP")&&(lstrPageName.substring(0,4).toUpperCase()!="FILE"))
            lstrPageName = "file:"+lstrPageName;
        else if(lstrPageName.substring(0,4).toUpperCase()!="FILE")
            lstrPageName = lstrPageName
        if (ablnWindowStatus == 0)
            document.location.href=lstrPageName;            
        else
            lstrWindowStatus = window.open(lstrPageName,"New_Win","width=640,height=480,left=120,top=30,toolbar=yes,status=yes,scrollbars=yes,resizable=yes,location=yes,menubar=yes,directories=yes");
 
    }
 
 

[acoder]

The URL should use forward slashes - see this Mozillazine link.

One other thing: document.location.href should be window.location.href.