# getURL problem!
**URL:** https://forum.kirupa.com/t/geturl-problem/22799
**Category:** Uncategorized
**Created:** [June 9, 2003, 12:48am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/geturl-problem/22799 "2003-06-09T00:48:46Z")
**Posts on this page:** 4
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### Author:  [@adham\_a](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/adham_a)
#### Post date: [June 9, 2003, 12:48am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/geturl-problem/22799/1 "2003-06-09T00:48:46Z")
Hello all,
I want to open an HTML file from flash i placed the following code in the action menu of my button:
[AS]
on (release) {
trace(“SDF”);
link = “C:\ est\Flash Files\Anim\NICOLEanimatingRand.html”;
getURL(link, “\_blank”);
}
[/AS]
when i am trying my code by ctrl + enter nothing happens i just get the trace message.
any idea what is wrong
thanks
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### Author:  [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)
#### Post date: [June 9, 2003, 12:58am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/geturl-problem/22799/2 "2003-06-09T00:58:48Z")
actually, the way you’re doing it is incorrect. it’s really odd how flash gets local paths. it doesn’t follow the traditional windows way of using backslashes (), but like this:
file:///c|/txtfileontheCdrive.txt
it’s really complex like that. to show you what i’m talking about, make a new window and in frame one add this actionscript:
```auto
trace(_url);
```
that’ll output the path of the swf that was made. it’s quite sketchy if you ask me. so to fix your code…
```auto
on (release) {
trace("SDF");
//link = "C: est\Flash Files\Anim\NICOLEanimatingRand.html";
link = "file:///c|/test/Flash%20Files/Anim/NICOLEanimatingRand.html";
getURL(link, "_blank");
}
```
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### Author:  [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)
#### Post date: [June 9, 2003, 1:02am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/geturl-problem/22799/3 "2003-06-09T01:02:41Z")
thanks for your reply but i also tried the relative addressing thing and i used :
link = “…\Flash Files\Anim\blabla.html”;
my flash file is in Flash Files directory (obvious)
but it didn’t work again. The problem is that i am not getting even an error which is in fact making me angry :pirate: because that means the the command is not reacting or something like that
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### Author:  [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)
#### Post date: [June 9, 2003, 3:29am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/geturl-problem/22799/4 "2003-06-09T03:29:53Z")
just do this
ActionScript:--------------------------------------------------------------------------------
on (release) {
```
getURL("NICOLEanimatingRand.html", "_blank");
```
}
* * *
if its in the same dir as the swf file maybe the trace condition or the cat that your using a variable for the link causing the problem