When trying to open a file in my browser, it shows access is denied error

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I tried to open a file in my browser, it shows access is denied error

I tried System.Diagnostics.Process.Start(strFilePath & strFileName) , this works on local but not on server and tried the following code

XML

strTemp = "<script language='javascript'>function NewWindow()
  {window.open("file://C:\\Users\\Ruban Jayakumar\\Desktop\\New folder\\boot strap icons.txt",'testpage','directories=no,location=no,status=no,toolbar=no,menubar=yes,height=450,width=700,left=10,top=10,Resizable=yes');return false; }</script>"
ClientScript.RegisterClientScriptBlock(Me.GetType, "SecurityPolicy", strTemp)

but error occurs, is there any other option ??

Posted 2-Jun-15 2:24am

Ruban_J

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John C Rayan 2-Jun-15 8:36am

This is wrong.
window.open("file://C:\\Users\\Ruban Jayakumar\\Desktop\\New folder\\boot strap icons.txt"

It has to refer your server like http:\\yourdomain\filepath

[no name] 2-Jun-15 8:41am

Nope, I have to open an external file, i e from my client ,machine...

John C Rayan 2-Jun-15 9:03am

you cannot. you have to look at internet security settings. For security reasons the browsers don't allow it. You have to change the settings.

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Kornfeld Eliyahu Peter · Answer 1 · 2015-06-02T03:48:00

And it is actually good news for you!!!
What you saw here is security in action...
Imagine that anyone, who whish so can write a web site that can access your C: drive without any restriction...
So, by definition web pages have no access to the local drives on the computer on which the browser runs...
...
But I suspect that you meant to open a file from the C: drive of the server from where you served the web page...and it should be a real security disaster if a could access the drives on the web server from within a web page just because it was served from that server originally...
If you want to share a file from your server you have several secure options:
1. Create a download button that does it for you
2. Share the file using Virtual Directory
3. Create a page to stream the files directly to client...(Stream Your Documents Using Simple Web Page[^])