Using AppleScript/Automator to get file path and create AFP hyperlink

Question

Hi All,
A colleague has asked for a service (contextual menu item in Finder) to get a selected item's remote (afp://) file path and copy it to the clipboard...  Pretty sure I've got that part down. 
What I need advice on is how to make the resulting pasted file path into a serviceable hyperlink.  AFP keeps telling me there was an error connection to the server....  Does the copied path have to include mounting commands and user credentials for this to work??
Thanks,
Nathan

Answer 1

Hi Richard - here's the script:
tell application "Finder"
          set sel to the selection as text
          set TempTID to AppleScript's text item delimiters
          set AppleScript's text item delimiters to space
          set sel to text items of sel
          set AppleScript's text item delimiters to "%20"
          set sel to sel as string
          set AppleScript's text item delimiters to TempTID
set the clipboard to "file://" & POSIX path of sel
end tell