html - How to open local file from browser?

Question

I'm using the following when trying to open a local file:

<a href="file:///Users/username/Dropbox/Documents/a/some document.numbers">some document</a>

When I click the above in a browser, it opens Finder to the folder. But does not open the file. Should I be doing something else to have the file open in Numbers?

Answer 1

You cannot open local files on the client. This would be a huge security risk.

You can link to files on your server (like you did) or you can ask the client for a file using <input type="file">