OK, let me preface this by stating that this is for an internal application only, so security is not a major concern and we can/do have a fair amount of control over the users browser, operating environment and configuration.
I am currently generating some hyperlinks, like this:
<a title="L7489" id="MainContent_GridView1_lnkFolderR_1" style="display: inline;" href="file:///W:\SYD\L\L7489">
These links do work, and the user can open the directory by clicking the link as expected. (This only works in IE, but as it is internal use only and a controlled environment, this is acceptable)
Now they want the application to automatically create the directory if it doesn't exist, and then link to it. I thought about trying this in javascript, but obviously there are design/security restrictions on accessing client side file system through javascript.
I can convert the anchor tag to an aspnet link button, and perform the directory check and creation on the server side. However, I am at a loss as to how I push the open folder command back to the browser.
In previous instances I have been able to dynamicaly generate an print a window.open() javascript call, but this doesn't work for local file paths.
- Is there anyway to push a new window redirect or something from the server side code?
or - does anyone know a way to make it work via javascript in either case?