Safari cannot open shortcuts on intranet

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Safari cannot open shortcuts on intranet

I'm having trouble finding out why Safari cannot find some of the shortcuts on an intranet site that I need to navigate through. On the PCs in our office, Internet Explorer (various versions) do not seem to have a problem. It seems like the shortcut starts with: file:\\, and then the rest of the path. Not sure why Safari, or Firefox, or maybe more specifically, a Mac would not be able to navigate the shortcut whereas the PC (or Internet Explorer, to be specific), does not have a problem. Anyone else have this problem?

MacBook (13-inch Mid 2009), Mac OS X (10.6.8)

Posted on Nov 24, 2012 12:10 AM

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Answer 1

Linc Davis

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Nov 24, 2012 11:42 AM in response to CT14

If the URI's include backslash ("\") characters, Safari won't open them. That's incorrect syntax encouraged by Microsoft to break compatibility with other systems.

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CT14 Author

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Nov 24, 2012 3:09 PM in response to Linc Davis

Thanks for the info. If Safari cannot open those files, is there an alternative browser, or some workaround so that I would not have to resort to a PC to access intranet files?

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Linc Davis

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Nov 24, 2012 3:20 PM in response to CT14

I doubt that any Mac browser would parse those malformed links. The solution is change all the backslashes to forward slashes ("/") on the servers, which is what Internet standards require.

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