File Uri Scheme and Relative Files
In short, a file URL takes the form of: file://localhost/absolute/path/to/file [ok] or you can omit the host (but not the slash): file:///absolute/path/to/file [ok] but not this: file://file_at_current_dir [no way] nor this: file://./file_at_current_dir [no way] I just confirmed that via Python’s urllib2.urlopen() More detail from http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File_URI_scheme: “file:///foo.txt” is okay, while “file://foo.txt” is not, although some interpreters … Read more