URI path navigation issue

Question

My jquery code is

    $(document).ready(function() {
      if (navigator.appVersion.indexOf("Win") != -1) {
       // Computers runs windows
        $("a[href$='.pdf']").each(function() {
            this.href = this.href.replace("Volumes", "KP01DS0194TG");
        });
      }
      if (navigator.appVersion.indexOf("Mac") != -1) {
        // computer is a Mac
        $("a[href$='.pdf']").each(function() {
            this.href = this.href.replace("KP01DS0194TG", "Volumes");
        });
      }
   });

My link in my html side of it is <a href="file://///KP01DS0194TG/Quotes/Scanning/brother/Jobsheets/job no 12538.pdf">12538</a>

however the Jquery doesnt work because of the file:///// - if I take that out it works great, however I need it in there or else I can't connect to it - any ideas on what I can do to rectify this problem?

Answer 1

A "file" URL needs 3 slashes:

1) file:// # protocol

2) /some/path/myfile.pdf # file and path, including leading "/" for root directory

This is true whether the OS is Windows ("\" backslash) or *nix

ALSO:

3) Spaces are bad. Consider naming your directories and files without spaces in them.

Otherwise, consider running "urlencode" on your path (which will convert spaces to "%20")

You might also be interested in the original RFC for URLs:

http://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc1738.txt