Thank you for your response. I'm not certain that this could be the problem, since as I mentioned (briefly in passing), when I save the generated source code into a file (using "View Page Source") and the plug that code into the browser, everything works exactly the way I need it to. It only fails when I am using the generated code from the Perl script, which was created with the PRINT command:

print "<a href=\"file:$filepath$path_ext\">$format</a></TD>\n";
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resulting in this line in the HTML code:

<a href="file:/net/server/Docs/02.pdf">pdf</a></TD>
[download]

If the browser will not accept following to local file:// URIs, then why would this succeed when it comes from a source code file instead of automatically generated code?

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