On Tuesday, September 30, 2003, at 03:35 PM, Alex Rice wrote: > Also, what is the reason for the "///" in method A? I don't know what > that represents in a URI. The file URL file:///alex/myfile.pdf is the same as file://localhost/alex/myfile.pdf In both cases the host name (empty or "localhost") refers to a local file system. Dar Scott