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If you do not happen to be running a web server on your computer, you can still access an HTML file using a URL that follows the file scheme. The following illustrates what such a URL typically contains for a file located on a Windows system. The key change is that the http: specifier is replaced by the file: specifier:

 *-- Scheme specifier
 |
 |        *--  Path
 |        |
 v        v
-----   --------------------------
file:///d:/phw/onto/java/test.html