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