Opening a local html file using an url

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Uddipaan Hazarika

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Jul 22, 2016, 2:21:06 PM7/22/16

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Hi,
I have made up a graphml file and is importing it to cytoscape. Now the thing is that there are html files local to the user machine that contains certain edge informations (pathway,mincut).
I have a data key called url and has the file path to it.
But the url only prompts me to navigate to the web browser if "http" word is present in the url. But my local file donot need http so can anybody help me out in opening the local html fileby giving the url as a data key through cytoscape.

P.S: Neither http://localhost:80/path-to-file works nor file:///path-to-file.

Barry Demchak

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Jul 28, 2016, 1:32:43 PM7/28/16

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Hi --

Thanks for bringing this up.

It seems pretty clear that the submenu code is looking for "http" in the table attribute value, and based on that adding "file" as a trigger for including this menu item would be a feature request ... something we could add, but isn't possible right now.

One thing you could do is to install a small web server on your PC, and then reference your files through that (e.g., http://localhost/myfile).