title: How to create a hyperlink to shared network directory or file?
body: <p>I've checked the following two related discussions:<br>
  1. <a href="https://stackoverflow.com/questions/2815982/how-do-i-make-a-hyperlink-to-a-local-executable">How do I make a hyperlink to a local executable?</a><br>
  2. <a href="https://stackoverflow.com/questions/5796215/an-url-to-a-windows-shared-folder">An URL to a Windows shared folder</a><br>
  3. <a href="https://stackoverflow.com/questions/6060786/file-url-cross-domain-issue-in-chrome-unexpected">File Url Cross Domain Issue in Chrome- Unexpected</a><br>
  4. <a href="https://stackoverflow.com/questions/192080/firefox-links-to-local-or-network-pages-do-not-work">Firefox Links to local or network pages do not work</a>    </p>
  
  <p>The following links work when I visited the website on localhost. That is, <code>http://localhost</code>.  </p>
  
  <pre class="lang-html prettyprint-override"><code>&lt;a href="\\172.21.1.123\DIR"&gt;A Shared Network Directory&lt;/a&gt;
  &lt;a href="file://172.21.1.123\DIR"&gt;A Shared Network Directory&lt;/a&gt;
  &lt;a href="file://///172.21.1.123\DIR"&gt;A Shared Network Directory&lt;/a&gt;  
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>But when I visited with <code>http://172.21.1.123</code>, all of above links have no response.
  The debug console shows that <code>Not allowed to load local resource: file://172.21.1.123/DIR</code>.</p>
  
  <p>Test Environment (Both of them have the same result.):<br>
  - Chrome 28.0.1500<br>
  - IE 10</p>
  
  <p>If it is due to the security reason, any configuration to turn off? Or any idea? </p>