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Re: How to copy & read a huge zipped book with thousands of html & jpeg files

From Maria Sophia <mariasophia@comprehension.com>
Newsgroups comp.mobile.android
Subject Re: How to copy & read a huge zipped book with thousands of html & jpeg files
Date 2026-07-04 21:48 -0400
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Maria Sophia wrote:
>  Data =
> content://com.android.externalstorage.documents/document/pages/2.html
> Yikes. What's happening? This isn't a real file-system path at all.
> It's an SAF document URI.

The index.html is written using normal standard relative links such as
 pages/2.html
 images/foo.png
 css/style.css

These only work if the browser knows the real directory.
But the fashuganeh Android SAF apparently hides the directory.

Therefore, SAF URIs cannot be used for relative links inside HTML files.
So when the HTML says:  <a href="pages/2.html">
Android tries to resolve it relative to the SAF URI, not the filesystem.

Worse, when I tap an HTML file in ZArchiver, it passes the file using
 content://ru.zdevs.zarchiver.external/...	
Which is ZArchiver's own SAF wrapper, not a real path.

When I paste the full URI into Privacy Browser, I get the error
 Webpage not available. 
 The webpage at file:///storage/emulated/0/0000/book/name/index.html
 could not be loaded because: net::ERR_ACCESS_DENIED

The normal HTML manual expects a real filesystem:	   
 /storage/emulated/0/0000/book/name/index.html
 /storage/emulated/0/0000/book/name/pages/2.html
But Android 16 rewrites everything into SAF URIs:
 content://com.android.externalstorage.documents/document/primary%3A0000%2Fbook%2Fname%2Findex.html	 

This means the relative link
 pages/2.html
Becomes 
 content://com.android.externalstorage.documents/document/pages/2.html
which is not a real path. It's a virtual document reference.

So why did file:///storage/emulated/0/0000/book/name/index.html fail?
Android 10+ treats any custom top-level folder as restricted.

Apparently, Android only allows browsers to read:
 /storage/emulated/0/Download/
 /storage/emulated/0/Documents/
 /storage/emulated/0/DCIM/
 /storage/emulated/0/Pictures/	 

Apparently, Occam's Razor says the simplest explanation that fits the facts  
is that Android 16 blocks browsers from reading custom top-level folders.	 
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