accept file links in web document

[marc_arbour]

Hi.

Has anyone aver has success in adding file:/// links to url_validation_pattern or removing all form of validation whatsoever?

I have tried blanking the url_validation_pattern variable in the config to no avail.

Thanks in advance for any help.

Best regards.

Marc

[Greg Sacrey]

Hey Marc,

I have fought with this as well. I have loosened up the url validation considerably by replacing the default with the following.

Use \ as an escape character to match the string and not have it perform a funciton. Important for [] and () and such.

(http|https|ftp)://([\w-]+\.)+[\w-]+(/[\w- ./?%&=~#\[\]\(\)\'\!\$]*)?

I have never tried it with file:///

But I suspect something along the lines of adding file into it might work.

Try this in place of the default.

(http|https|ftp|file)://([\w-]+\.)+[\w-]+(/[\w- ./?%&=~#\[\]\(\)\'\!\$]*)?

Hope this helps.

[marc_arbour]

Thanks Greg.

To make it work, I ended up putting .* as a url validation regex...

Now, I can insert a file link, but when I click it in the document's page, I am not lead to it. If I copy-paste the link into a browser window... It works.

EDIT: when I ctrl-click the link it works as well.

Do you have any idea where I should look to get it to work with a simple left click?

Best regards.

Marc

[Greg Sacrey]

Hey Marc,

What is your entire url validator?

I am curious if it needs something at the beginning.

[marc_arbour]

Hi Greg,

As I mentioned, my url validator is .* (dot star)

It validates anything at all.

Can you help on my single click issue?

Best regards.

Marc

[Greg Sacrey]

Sorry I am not sure how to help with your issue.