BBcode for opening a link in local network

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SpyZip
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BBcode for opening a link in local network

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I need to add in my forum BBcode for opening a link to a folder or file on the surver in local network for example "\\Pavel-pc\public\Flash", but with URL tag it wont open, couse it's not http://
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slorge
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Re: BBcode for opening a link in local network

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Same here. We're using phpbb3 on our intranet only, so I need to have the ability to link to file shares on servers...
Haven't been able to do it yet...

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Re: BBcode for opening a link in local network

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I got this format to work, but only in Internet explorer. It doesn't work in firefox or chrome. I haven't tested it in Safari, Opera, etc.

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[url=file://servername/fileshare/file.html]LAN link[/url]

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Re: BBcode for opening a link in local network

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The proper URI for a network share would be file://servername/fileshare/file.html -- however Firefox at least, will not open "file:"-links from a remote host, for security reasons. You can trick it, by referring to localhost, and then redirecting it to the remote host. You can do this by using file://localhost///servername/fileshare/file.html ("localhost/" can be shortened to just "/" so file://///servername/fileshare/file.html will work).

However, for security reasons, Firefox will never open "file:"-links from a page fetched using another protocol, so "file:"-links WILL NEVER WORK from a phpBB forum -- at least not with Firefox, and most likely not with most other browsers either.

You should do one of the following:
  • Upload the file to an internal webserver and link to it
  • Attach it to the forum post
  • Instruct your users to manually locate the file or copy/paste the link
  • Instruct your users to use Internet Explorer for the intranet forum
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File_URI_scheme
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Re: BBcode for opening a link in local network

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Kolthor wrote:You can do this by using file://localhost///servername/fileshare/file.html ("localhost/" can be shortened to just "/" so file://///servername/fileshare/file.html will work).
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I never knew that, thanks :D

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Re: BBcode for opening a link in local network

Post by Simpel »

Hi,

that file://localhost stuff works great. My problem is that my users are copying and pasting the adress from the windows explorer. So I need a bbcode that's adding "file://localhost/" at the start and what's changing windows backslashes into the correct slashes. Can anybody help me?

Regards, Conrad

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