Trying to access images via img url that are in a network drive

[scottdrichards]

I am trying to make a photo gallery viewer. I want to give the frontend something like <img src="/images/thumbnails/2025/dog.jpg" /> and then I would hope there's a Tauri config to map images/thumbnails/ to //NAS/thumbnails/.

It appears as though the asset protocol is what I would want (aside: the config docs has a "see more" link that links back to itself). However, it looks like you can only use predefined locations for those assets (in fs scope). Is "assets" the correct approach?

Using tauri v2.

[FabianLars]

i believe the assets protocol is the correct (first) approach, yes. For a test you could use "**/*" as your scope to check if it can load files from network drives.
if that works, you could then use rust to extend the scope at runtime so you only enable what you need. something like

  let asset_protocol_scope = app.asset_protocol_scope();
  let _ = asset_protocol_scope.allow_file(file_path);