How to make file:// links openable?

Question

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Links are drawn on the site using the file:// protocol to local files (on a computer or on shares in a local network). Is there any way to allow the browser (IE and FF) to open files in their assigned local programs? Text files, with .cshtml extension, linked to VisualStudio.

Answer 1

Access to the protocol file://can only be from the page opened by the protocolfile://