Obtaining the URL used to open the PDF

Hi,
My Acrobat PDF is to be opened within the browser using a URL that will differ with each testing region.
How do I obtain the URL that was used to open the PDF within the PDF javascript code?
Thanks for your help.

Look at the documentation for that method: http://livedocs.adobe.com/acrobat_sdk/9.1/Acrobat9_1_HTMLHelp/JS_API_AcroJS.88.443.html
You'll see that there are security restrictions, so it normally cannot work if the code is inside the document. It also won't work for a dynamic XFA form, but might for a static form if you can get it to execute in a privileged context (e.g., folder-level code).
This also isn't something that you'd normally want to do at run-time. Can you explain why you want to do this? There might be other approaches that would be more appropriate for an XFA form, so consider posting this in the LiveCycle Designer forum as TSN urged.

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