Webbrowser local files

[twiss]

I am running in a problem, I need to access a local hosted index.html.

I have a running web app, an call th website with: DoWebNavigate("http://www.twiss.eu");

This is working fine.

I have uploaded a custom index.html to c$\local_site\
But I can not figure out how to call this file instead of "http:\\www.twiss.eu"

Already tried:
DoWebNavigate("file///c$/local_site/index.html")
DoWebNavigate("file///c/local_site/index.html")
DoWebNavigate("file///C/local_site/index.html")

Help....

[stderr]

I am running in a problem, I need to access a local hosted index.html.

I have a running web app, an call th website with: DoWebNavigate("http://www.twiss.eu");

This is working fine.

I have uploaded a custom index.html to c$\local_site\
But I can not figure out how to call this file instead of "http:\\www.twiss.eu"

Already tried:
DoWebNavigate("file///c$/local_site/index.html")
DoWebNavigate("file///c/local_site/index.html")
DoWebNavigate("file///C/local_site/index.html")

I'm not sure what you are using to do this but various ways to operate on web pages do not have support for accessing the local file system. This can mean that you can't very easily test without setting up a local web server or writing some sort of layer between two different means of access, one for the web and the other for the local file system.

If you type

python -m SimpleHTTPServer 8000

in the directory with the file you want to load in, you should be able to access it with your web based library with something like

DoWebNavigate("http://localhost:8000/index.html");

Replace localhost with the actual ip if are using a different machine to serve up the web page.

If you need to access files and web pages transparently, you might have to glue together two different libraries or perhaps find something that handles this transparently.

[ricl]

Windows 10 Core IoT?

[luc_winters]

Hi,

I am struggeling with the same, I want to load a index.html from connected usb device.
if you make any progress, please post. (I will if I find a way)

reg.
Luc

[luc_winters]

Still not found a solution, anyone has any idea?

configuration:
raspberry pi, windows 10 IOT
simple iot webbrowser to load page.

Internetpage is loading oke, but I seem to have no access to local usb device.
I think I should load it like: DoWebNavigate("file///e$/index.html")
but this is not working.

[ricl]

Any UWP application can only access files in its own local storage tree (and the well know libraries for shared files). To go beyond that will require writing in Win32. The rest is not accessible from UWP.

19. Open a file in C# for access to read/write it

// create a file with the given filename in the local folder; replace any existing file with the same name
StorageFile file = await Windows.Storage.ApplicationData.Current.LocalFolder.CreateFileAsync(filename, CreationCollisionOption.ReplaceExisting);

20. Why can't I open c:\something.txt

UWP applications can only use the Well Known Folders for storage, no access is allowed to the wider core file system
...


For the E; drive the Known Folder is 'RemovableDevices'

Possibly confusingly, you need Removable Storage permissions in the manifest.