WebBrowser control not navigating to links to "file://" protocol URIs

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Published on 2010-04-17T10:34:03Z Indexed on 2010/04/17 10:43 UTC
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I am setting the DocumentText property to an HTML string that contains links like:

<a href="file:///D:/dir/file.html">NewPage</a>

The links are shown properly in the WebBrowser, but nothing happens when I click them. The Navigating, Navigated and DocumentComplete events do not fire - nothing seems to happen at all.

AllowNavigation is true and other links using HTTP are working.

Any ideas please?

Nick

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