[pmwiki-users] Local windows files and unix

[Martin Fick]

On Mon, Feb 07, 2005 at 07:29:06PM -0500, Neil Herber wrote:
> At 2005-02-07  06:57 PM -0500, Martin Fick is rumored to have said:
> >First, is there anyway to make PmWiki recognize windows file
> >URLs such as \\fileserver\fil?  In other words, automatically
> >detect such URLs in plain text and mark them up as links?
> 
> Martin
> 
> There was quite a long discussion about this recently under the topic "how 
> does one encode "file:" link in a wiki page?" The discussion starts here:
> 
> http://pmichaud.com/pipermail/pmwiki-users/2005-January/009436.html
> 
> One major problem is that  not all browsers allow you to access a local 
> file via a URL on a web page.
>

Thanks Neil, 

I've noted the security concern with various browsers.  

As for my request, I think I need to clarify.  I would like
plain text without the file: prefix to be recognized as a
URL if there are backslashes in it.  It seems that would be
a good indicator that a windows user meant it as a URL. 
The motivation here is that unfortunately in a  windows
environment people constantly send out emails with
references to files on corporate fileservers without
prefixing the URL with file:. I would like it to be easy to
dump these emails into the wiki wihtout modifying the URLS.



-Martin