QDesktopServices and Networkpath

Knacktus

Hi guys,

I want to use QDesktopServices.openUrl() to open webpages with flash-content, pdf-docs, etc. which are stored in a network-attached storage. The path to the ressources looks like this:

//nas01/dir/doc.pdf

embedded in html

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<a href="//nas01/dir/doc.pdf">MyDocumentation</a>
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Opening this url with QDesktopServices.openUrl() doesn't work. However, if I connect this network location to a local drive (e.g. Z:) it does work as expected.

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<a href="Z:\dir\doc.pdf">MyDocumentation</a>
@

The problem is, I can't expect the user to map the drive manually.

Any hints are highly appreciated, cheers,

Jan

hpollak

See "Stackoverflow":http://stackoverflow.com/questions/2773773/make-sure-a-href-local-file-is-opened-outside-of-browser

Knacktus

But when I paste an network path in IE it works as expected. It just doesn't work with QDesktopServices ....

hpollak

IE is a Browser!!! (try to leave http:// and it will still work but its a thing of the Browser to add it)

IE is not HTML!

Knacktus

Hmmm, okay, I'm not sure if I get it ... so one more example of what I'm doing (I might not have been very clear in my top post, sorry for that ...):

I've got a html document on //nas01/dir/index.html. I open this html with QWebkit:

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def _init_web_viewer(self):
self.web_viewer = QtWebKit.QWebView()
self.web_viewer.page().setLinkDelegationPolicy(QtWebKit.QWebPage.DelegateAllLinks)
self.web_viewer.linkClicked.connect(self.open_in_external_browser)
self.web_viewer.load(//nas01/dir/index.html)

def open_in_external_browser(self, url):
    QDesktopServices.openUrl(url)

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Now I want that all links in this index.html are opened with the standard applications, e.g. IE (for flash content, I know there're ways to enable this in QWebKit, but I can't use those), Adobe Reader, Word, Outlook, ...

My html looks like this:

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<!DOCTYPE html>
<html>
<head>
<title>My App</title>
</head>
<body>

<a href="flash_content.html">FlashStuff</a>
<a href="doc.pdf">MyDocumentation</a>
<a href="stuff/stuff_doc.pdf">Stuff Documentation</a>

</body>
</html>
@

All files are located at the nas //nas01/dir/ and subdirs.

When I replace the locations in the index.html by absolute paths pointing to a mapped drive, e.g. Z:\dir\doc.pdf where //nas01 is mounted at Z:, it does work as expected. Unfortunately I can't do that in my production environment.

Cheers,

Jan