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i have tried using open url in Filemaker 7. Seems fine until however it will not open a non http:// link when i use IWP.

My link in the field is mms://ttsetav01/bodybeautiful.wmv (It's a video streamining file).

when i click open URL button in IWP

It becomes http://mms//ttsetav01/bodybeautiful.wmv (It replaces my link)

What is happening? Has anyone found a way to solve it? Thanks.

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Sorry, at this point I don't have a fix either. This started happening with me as well, while it worked fine before. The URL refers to a pdf document on our network. All permissions are open. When I click the link, it opens IE, pops the URL in the address bar, and adds that annoying "http://", preceding my link, and then I get a "The page cannot be displayed" error. I've even tried adding "file://" in front of the url, but it still pops in the "http://" prefix.

I am using FM7 on Windows 2000. I've been all over the MS Knowledge base and I can only find articles relating to shutting off AutoComplete, which doesn't work either. I'm wondering if one of MS latest updates has affected this somehow.

I can't figure if this is a FM problem or a Windows problem. Help anyone?

Thanks,

Tony

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Here is a workaround I just found on an earlier thread from last November.

Use a backslash "" right after the address portion of the URL. Your calculation result would look soomething like

"http://192.168.1.1xxxxxxxxxxxx"

Note that you need the double backslash escape sequence for FM to accept this as a valid text string.

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