Question

In a Windows environment, URLs can have the prefix outlook://

This identifies the URL as an item that resides within Outlook (or Microsoft Exchange), and IE supports these links.

How can I configure a Twiki to "recognize" the prefix outlook:// as a valid external link?

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-- TWikiGuest - 08 Nov 2005

Answer

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Compare TelnetURLSupport, although I'm sure your MS Outlook would interpret ordinary mailto links properly.

-- FranzJosefSilli - 08 Nov 2005

Recognising "protocol://" is done in the browser. Some, like Konqueror, are particularly well endowed and configurable, but most are not.

-- AntonAylward - 09 Nov 2005

The question is: What does this type of URL get you? Does it allow one to access the "Inbox" or a message within a particular folder? What does it do?

-- SteveRJones - 09 Nov 2005

A link like this gets you into a particular folder within the Outlook Public Folders.

And though it is true that the browser has to support it (IE DOES support it, whereas FireFox does not, for example), it ALSO has to be supported by TWiki, else it doesn't render it properly.

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-- TWikiGuest - 14 Nov 2005

Its probably in TWiki.pm

$regex{linkProtocolPattern} = '(file|ftp|gopher|https|http|irc|news|nntp|telnet)';

(from DakarRelease)

-- MartinCleaver - 14 Nov 2005