Hi,
I just wanted to quickly say a big thanks to everyone for their suggestions. I decided to implement an extension so I could have <file>c:\path\to\file.doc</file>. It's simple and effective, and very user friendly.
MediaWiki is awesome, and now I can see why. These projects have such a capable and helpful developer base.
Thanks again! Michael.
From: Carlos angus@quovadis.com.ar Reply-To: Wikimedia developers wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org To: Wikimedia developers wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org Subject: Re: [Wikitech-l] Using spaces in file urls Date: Fri, 02 Feb 2007 10:44:17 +0100
Michael . wrote: [...]
I've gotten far enough with this using meta and mediawiki.org, and have enabled file:// links and a bunch of other stuff to make this posisble,
even
changing the browsers so file:// links are supported from the site. The
only
problem I've got left is what to do when there's a space in the file or directory name being linked to.
For example, if a file is stored in p:\docs\some user documentation.doc,
I
can't link to it in the wiki without setting $wgRawHtml and using the a href=... tag directly inside html tags. Not a very secure option, and
also
not very user-friendly. Substituting spaces for %20 doesn't work (IE
renders
the %20 directly for file:// links, it seems), and using [blah] doesn't work, becuase the first space gets regarded as the split between the url
and
the title of the link to be displayed. And an a href tag just gets
ignored,
despite my efforts to try and add it to the attribute whitelist.
I've been messing around for options for a few days now, and I've broken
and
unbroken everything a few times, by screwing with stuff like
Sanitize.php,
Linker.php, Parser.php, and so on. But despite being a long-term PHP developer, I can't figure this code out despite my best efforts.
So I'd like to ask the community if they have any suggestions on how I
can
achieve this? None of the code changes I made seemed to have any effect,
so
I'm at a loss as to what to do next.
Maybe you can create a simple markup extension, which transforms something like '<mylink href="file://p:\docs\a b c">Link</mylink>' into '<a href="file://p:\docs\a b c">Link</a>' (or what the correct HTML should be).
These extensions are very easy to build. The documentation is here: http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Extending_wiki_markup
Good luck.
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