# Linking to Custom Scheme
**URL:** https://meta.discourse.org/t/linking-to-custom-scheme/254729
**Category:** Development
**Created:** [February 10, 2023, 3:39am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/linking-to-custom-scheme/254729 "2023-02-10T03:39:03Z")
**Posts on this page:** 6
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### Author:  [@jays10](https://meta.discourse.org/u/jays10)
#### Post date: [February 10, 2023, 3:39am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/linking-to-custom-scheme/254729/1 "2023-02-10T03:39:03Z")
Hello All,
We are setting up our new discourse internal environment and I was able to setup a custom URL scheme to link to an internal resource on the network, I wanted to add an easy button when making a new post which I was able to do but I want to be able to use the highlighted text for the link title as well as for the actual link itself. Right now I am just using an apply surround to insert what we need into a link but we have to manually change the link title, see the code below.
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user enters 123456 \> that applies this around the highlighted text `[id_here](INET://123456)`
I did look through the code but I could not find anything that would help me accomplish what we are looking to do. Is there anyway to use the highlighted text in the link title as well?
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### Author:  [@merefield](https://meta.discourse.org/u/merefield)
#### Post date: [February 11, 2023, 11:05am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/linking-to-custom-scheme/254729/2 "2023-02-11T11:05:24Z")
So you want the text you select to appear twice?
I don’t think that function will allow you to do that?
Have you thought about overriding the onebox logic to work with your protocol?
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### Author:  [@jays10](https://meta.discourse.org/u/jays10)
#### Post date: [February 14, 2023, 6:18pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/linking-to-custom-scheme/254729/3 "2023-02-14T18:18:15Z")
The protocol works fine, I can use inet:// as needed but I was just looking for an easy way for user to insert the custom URL into a post. In the previous form (phpbb) we made a custom bbcode for the link that worked however I was looking for an easier solution with discourse.
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### Author:  [@merefield](https://meta.discourse.org/u/merefield)
#### Post date: [February 14, 2023, 6:33pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/linking-to-custom-scheme/254729/4 "2023-02-14T18:33:38Z")
so Discourse already supports oneboxing of `inet://` links?
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### Author:  [@jays10](https://meta.discourse.org/u/jays10)
#### Post date: [February 14, 2023, 6:40pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/linking-to-custom-scheme/254729/5 "2023-02-14T18:40:20Z")
It does not out of the box. So what you’re referring to is to create a onebox plugin for inet:// which will format the link the way I need?
So when user enter inet://12345
onebox preview will actually contain the proper formatted link?
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### Author:  [@merefield](https://meta.discourse.org/u/merefield)
#### Post date: [February 14, 2023, 6:41pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/linking-to-custom-scheme/254729/6 "2023-02-14T18:41:44Z")
My suggestion was that rather than doing something so low level in the composer, “simply” modify the oneboxing subsystem so it formats `inet://` links just like `https://` links.
Specifically I’m referring to the way it formats inline like so: [Dark/Light Mode Toggle - #20 by jordan.vidrine](https://meta.discourse.org/t/dark-light-mode-toggle/215585/20)
All I had to do was paste the link, Discourse looked at the target and created a nice linked title for me from the og tags.
This of course assumes your organisation has control over the og tags on the target linked pages.