I launch my app from a local file and pass it the location of a remote server in the query string. For example, given the following shortcut:
"C:\Program Files\Internet Explorer\iexplore.exe" file:///c:/abc/abc.html REMOTE_SERVER=https://ie7.microsoft.com/server/
I have javascript on that page which parses document.location.search to obtain REMOTE_SERVER. In ie6, this works. In ie7 rc1, it is null. Can anyone suggest a fix or workaround -Thanks
document.location.search is null in ie7 rc1 for local url
Robert S Parker
This does not seem to work. document.URL is slightly different. It changes the forward slashes to backward after the drive letter and removes one of the forward slashes after file:///, but it still removes the search...
etrast
krimzin
Just to follow up with a "me too". We are trying to run JsUnit testing in an automated fasion. JsUnit uses the document.location.search property to parse the query string. When passing a url to a local file with a query string, the search property is an empty string. For example...
"C:\Program Files\Internet Explorer\iexplore.exe" file:///c:/jsunit/tests/testRunner.html testPage=C:/jsunit/tests/jsUnitTestSuite.html&autoRun=true
The expected value of document.location.search is file:///c:/jsunit/tests/testRunner.html testPage=C:/jsunit/tests/jsUnitTestSuite.html&autoRun=true, but this is not the case. Further, this appears to be a change in behavior from ie6 to ie7.
Any ideas would be greatly appreciated.
-Andy
Jeff-B
Try this way, Use an wrapper html to wrap the parameterized web page(ex. p.htm)
wrapper.htm
<html>
<head>
<script>
function load(){
window.document.links[0].click();
}
</script>
</head>
<body onload="load()">
<a href="file:///C|/p.htm template=print.xml&source=instance.xml">a</a>
</body>
</html>