Hi,
I have an Intranet that is used to view folders on another server. I can generate the correct string to pass to the clients browser, but when I use the Response.Redirect (with string) I get the "Page cannot be displayed" error message. If I Response.Write the string then manually copy, paste to the Address in the browser it opens the folders fine. (this verifies the creation of the string). Has anyone dealt with this situation before? is there a setting at the browser level to check? Any ideas?
Thanks, deepblue03

plz show some code...then we can take a look at what goes wrong...:)

i've also made some sort of CMS and i know that it sometimes takes some puzzling to get all the links correct ...

greetz,

Harold

Harold,

Thanks for the reply... I was reading another post here http://p2p.wrox.com/topic.asp?TOPIC_ID=791 talking about "SHOW friendly HTTP errors". I de-selected the "Show friendly HTTP errors" and tried running the code again. To my surprise it worked IE5.5 and above, (and I thought it wouldn't be friendly) I'm wondering why this would allow me to browse to the correct folder instead of just not displaying the page. I also wonder what impact not having this selected will have for the other users. Basically the resultant "string" that I would send to the browser with a Response.Redirect is:
file:\\server_name\xyz_folder\ This seems to be interperted differently depending how the SHOW Friendly HTTP Errors is set. If you have any ideas, comments please let me know... Thanks again.

i almost can't imagine that it has something to do with the "show friendly HTTP errors"-option because that only determines the amount of feedback a user gets in case of an error.

Another thing what might be worth checking are the permissions on the directories on the server. U said that when u tried to access the link from your application u got an error but when u paste the link in the browser u can reach the file. That could be cause when you're 'in' your program you are probably using the IUSR account (with the permissions belonging to this account). When you paste the link you are using your own account permissions.
Just try giving everybody full control to the directory on the other server (just as a test offcourse, not for always!)

Harold