# getURL() Help

**URL:** <https://forum.kirupa.com/t/geturl-help/47862>\
**Category:** flash\
**Created:** [April 7, 2004, 7:39pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/geturl-help/47862 "2004-04-07T19:39:01Z")\
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**Author:** ![Mannequin](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/5f8ce5/32.png) [@Mannequin](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/Mannequin)\
**Post date:** [April 7, 2004, 7:39pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/geturl-help/47862/1 "2004-04-07T19:39:01Z")

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I’m creating a CD for a client that contains a Flash executable. getURL does not work with a local file on the CD. Normally, get URL works only if the SWF is embedded inside an HTML page, or if you specify “http://” or “mailto:”

I don’t want to launch an HTML window online, I want to launch an HTML file that’s on the CD. If I do this:

getURL(“map.htm”, “\_blank”);

It does nothing because the browser isn’t open and it doesn’t know to launch it.

The real way to pull up this file would be by using the “file://” protocol, but using this would require me to know what the user’s CD-ROM Drive letter is. Their drive could be D:, E:, F:, any number of things.

So how do I use “getURL()” to launch an HTML file on the CD?