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Why Confluence deletes local links?

Thomas

Hi,

we use local links in confluence. It worked a long time in combination Firefox+LocalLink-Addon.

A few weeks ago we updated to Confluence 6.1.4.

Now I insert a link which I can see in the Source View:
<p> <a href="file:///ICSF002/home/Test.txt">Test</a> </p>

When I save and edit again the Link is not there! There is only:
<p> <a>Test</a> </p>

Why Confluence deletes content? Is that a feature?

Regards Thomas

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AnnWorley

Hi there Thomas,

It looks like the issue is the file: portion of the link being restricted in modern browsers. Please see: Cannot link to local files from within Confluence

Thomas

Hi Ann,

I know the link above.

The file is there. In the past our links where not deleted. Why Confluence accepts the link in the first step and then delete it?

Regards Thomas

Thomas

I can reproduce it again and again:

inser text, link it to:
file://///sfile/share/Folder/Subfolder/filename.pdf
Save
The link works now.
Edit the Page, edit the link. There is no Link!!!
Cancel Editmode
The Link can be used, but it is not editable!?!

Mamun Ahsan Khan

I have the same problem like thomas with Confluence Version 6.1.2.

After saving a page with a local link works fine. After a while the link doesn't wotk, even on the same pc. If i edit this page again, there are no links on this page. It looks like, conflunce checks peiodically all the pages with local links and delete them.

This should be an issue of confluence, cause i use very often a webapplication on firefox with plenty of local links to files on a local network shares. The only thing, i have to do is, change some security setting in Firefox by editiong the page about:config. More about change setting http://kb.mozillazine.org/Links_to_local_pages_do_not_work

Hope someone from altlassian team would help us in this issue.

Regards Khan

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