How to allow direct following of links to local files (file://///) in browsers?

Question

Google Chrome

Type links

<a href="file://///myserver/1. Документы/0. Май 2014

Work correctly only in IE. Other browsers refuse to follow such links from the portal pages. Those. right click on the link "Copy link address" and paste directly into the address bar works, but direct navigation does not. Any ideas for solving this problem (for the sake of the portal, no one wants to switch to IE)?

Answer 1

As Google has shown, in this case, for almost all browsers, there is an extension that decisively prohibits locallinks.

Answer 2

If you need files on the server, not local ones, then just configure the server to distribute them via HTTP. The web is full of guides on how to post static.

Answer 3

Raise the server, for simplicity, you can use OpenServer