Embed link with custom protocol

[vandehey]

Hi gang! Does anyone know how to embed a link into an HTML email, that is using a custom protocol? It looks like the built in link inserter will only format and deal with http://

I would like to insert a link that has something other than http://. Like, how about inserting a link to an FTP server? ftp://servername.dom.com or something like that? When I do that and click in the link on Zimbra (5.0.9), it takes me to about:blank in firefox.

This same email in Mail.app on OSX properly opens up firefox and takes me to the FTP login that was directed from the embedded link.

Any suggestions?

-Jeff

[mmorse]

For others using the ZWC you can just type ftp://server.domain.com and the com_zimbra_url Zimlet will recognize it/turn it into a link. Most other other providers do something similar - and for those that don't most know to enter it in their address bar.

If you want to change the text shown so "linktype:// server.domain.com/address/path" becomes "Site Name" you could use the Notebook to do so, you can't always in the mail editor because: Bug 33333 - "Insert Link" assumes http:// prefix

Also vote for: Bug 16386 - Raw HTML Source Editor in Mail Compose

[vandehey]

Thanks for the info Mike! I have voted for, and will follow those bugs.

[dustys]

Sounds as though we are try to do something similar, but I am running into an issue. I have modified /opt/zimbra/jetty/webapps/service/zimlet/com_zimbra_url/com_zimbra_url.xml to include our new handler.

If we type the following into a message and send it:

<handler>://<URL>

It is parsed correctly, but if the URL is embedded in an HTML message, we receive an "about:blank" in the href value in FireFox:

<a href="about:blank" target="_blank">Text</a>

If you view the original message's text, the URL is correct in the HTML.

Thoughts? If I run Zimbra though Firebug or Inspector in Safari, I find the regex changes I've made, but I also find references to the old regex.

Any input would be appreciated.

DJS

[PhD]

id like to bump this...

we have a custom url handler that we use in our company to load video files through an application called RV - and we use rvlink:// as the protocol handler

we have just noticed now that switching to zimbra web, this url does not work for us anymore - when you hover the mouse over the text it shows as if there is a link there, but clicking on it does nothing.

is there a way to add custom url handlers in zcs7 yet?

ive added a bug report here: http://bugzilla.zimbra.com/show_bug.cgi?id=61949