Hello I use Discourse as a Intranet Forum. Now I try to make a Hyperlink to a file on a servershare (\\server.domain.local\share\file.txt). When I create a link to a UNC path, it appears, but it does not work. When I click on the link nothing happens. Thats the code I try in Discourse: [My File] (file://///server.domain.local/share/file.txt) Is there a way to create a Hyperlink to a UNC Path? Or is it generally not supported?

Have you added “file” to the allowed href schemes site setting?

Hi David That does the trick :grinning::thumbsup: Thank you!

It looks like the updated markdown renderer won’t convert file:// paths properly ( discourse 1.9.5 )

Hello, I have added file to “allowed href schemes” but when I create a hyperlink using a file:// url, Discourse will post it with https instead of file. Then when changing the https back to “file” it’s still opening a https link when clicking on it. Is the “file” scheme supported in Discourse(I’m in v2.2.0.beta2 +5)? br

@jomaxro can you verify we didn’t regress on href scheme support?

Why are there an unusual number of forward slashes in there? Shouldn’t it be the same pattern for all schemes?

[תמונה] codinghorror: Why are there an unusual number of forward slashes in there? No clue. As mentioned, I’ve never seen the file href before. I used 3 for my screenshot as that’s what I saw over on SO: https://stackoverflow.com/questions/12837024/href-file-doesnt-work. In any case, I tried 1 (just in case), 2 (normal), 3 (SO answer), 4, & 5 (example in OP) slashes, none worked.

Is there any update on this issue? I run in the same problem using latest version. File is not working as expected.

Hi, I’m trying to use local links to PDF documents on local shared network device. I run Discourse locally as a documentation tool. I have tried to add “file” in the href settings, but cannot get a working local link. Is there any way around this? Is this broken or am I doing it wrong?

We should check this again @jomaxro

Link to a UNC path

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jomaxro (Joshua Rosenfeld) 30 בנובמבר,‏ 2018,‏ 5:36pm 8

Can confirm that we did not regress completely, adding ftp or steam works. I cannot get file to work, however, though that could just mean I’m doing something wrong. Never used the file href scheme before.

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