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I am trying to download a data file from a local network share to an iPhone device. I have placed the file on a computer on the network and can view through browsers such as Chrome or Mozilla, from any computer on the local network.
However, Safari on a Mac and the iPhone do not find the file! An example of the URL I use is ‘file://computer/SharedDocs/file.csv’.
Why do Safari and the iPhone fail to find the file?
The iPhone does not support mapping of shared drives as needed to access a remote file through the file: URL-scheme.
Try to make the file available through one of the supported url-schemes, eg. http: