Open file from a web page?

I would like to create links to some files that will open in their proper application when I click links on the web page. Is there a simple way to open a file from a regular href web link?
If I put in a posix path of the network file that I want to open, the finder will open a window and show you the file, but the file does not open.

Only a few file formats can be opened and displayed in a Web browser. These files can only be viewed or saved to the local drive.
In order to be used by other applications the file must be downloaded to the local machine and then opened.

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Hello:
I have a Mac running OS 10.8.5 and I use Acrobat Pro and Acrobat Reader. Today for some reason, any time I try and access a pdf file from a web page, it won't open. I get a blank window. PDF files already on my computer open fine and I can create PDF files from Word docs, but I can't download or view any pdf file from any web page. Strangely, PDF files on web pages open just fine on my iPhone.
I checked that both my copy of Acrobat Pro and Acrobat Reader are up-to-date. They are.
I checked that my copy of Firefox is up-to-date. It is. And nothing changed with Firefox within the last 24 hours.
I am a humble computer end-user. I am baffled as to why this would suddenly not work. I have not changed any settings, etc. Any help or suggestions would be greatly appreciated.

Thank you.
I checked your instructions you sent and as far as I can tell all of my settings, etc for Firefox (plugin updates and preferences) are correct but I am having the same problem.
However, everything works in Safari. I don't have time to attempt to diagnose why Firefox no longer works. I will just switch to Safari.
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Cannot open pdf files from the web

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It seems that you have removed the Create PDF from webpage tool from the toolbar by mistake. Please don't worry I will help you to get this issue fixed.
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tobycraftse wrote:
> Is there some site I cannot rip the swf file?
>
> most of the commercial site with flash, when I look into
HTML source code,
> they don't include link to swf file directly.
>
> some site include javascript like -
AC_RunActiveContent.js
>
> any way to rip those flash swf files?
>
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not hide SWF files.
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