opera mini won't handle file[colon]///

Last post by jmwking:

Originally posted by williamwclee:

Originally posted by dirgas:

Other than that, mini transcoder is the localhost so you can't open any file from there.

but i can do that with the built-in browser shipped with Android.
Its built-in brower is able to handle file[colon]///

Mini is different: it's a thin client that displays what the Opera Mini server prepares. When you enter a URL in Mini, the Mini client sends the request to Opera Central. An Opera server visits the public page, and does all the heavy lifting there. Opera Central then creates and sends back a page view built for your device. Your Mini client displays that page. Mini never talks to anything but Opera servers.

It's a trade-off. It saves both bandwidth and processing power (the full page read and script processing gets done by an Opera server), but it also means Mini can't visit any page that's not on the public interwebs, whether a file on your device or a different device - a dvr, for example - behind your firewall (unless that box can be addressed publicly).

The Android browser - and any other full featured browser - does the work from your phone, and has access to files on your phone and devices in your local network.

Hope this helps.

-jk