How to make non-http urls in Confluence 5.0.3

[TenLeftFingers]

We've just installed 5.0.3 and I'd like to insert a link that looks like this:

jdbcoraclethin:@(description=(sdu=33333)(enable=broken)(load_balance=yes)(address=(protocol=tcp)(host=www.oursite.com)(por=1111))(address=(protocol=tcp)(host=www.oursite.com)(port=1111))(connect_data=(service_name=user1)))

with the title 'Copy jdbc url from here'.

But this doesn't work and when I use the Insert Link method. It tells me the link is invalid unless I prepend it with http://- but this of course breaks the link.

How can I do this without putting a lot of messy urls on the page?

P.S: I tried adding a small bounty but the karma offered in the end was 5 times what I entered so I've cancelled until I figure that out..

[Nic Brough -Adaptavist- · Accepted solution]

That's because it's not really a proper http based url, so Confluence can't understand it as a link.

I don't think you can do this without some code to tell Confluence "this is a non-standard link, please treat it the same way as an http url". I'd try doing that in a user macro though - I have seen this done before, but I'm not 100% sure it was with a user macro or a plugin macro.

[TenLeftFingers]

Thanks Nic Brough. I've gone through the default macros and haven't found anything like that. Like I say, I could include them fully expanded like above but they page would look terrible. Maybe I could use some other form of hiding - like the cloak macro - but nothing would beat linking.

[Nic Brough -Adaptavist-]

Thing is, it's NOT a link, it's a block of text that you want to format differently to other blocks of text.

Have another look at the user macros - you can use them to wrap formatting around blocks of text. Not the existing ones, but writing one for yourself - https://confluence.atlassian.com/display/DOC/Writing+User+Macros

[TenLeftFingers]

Thanks Nic, that's a good failsafe option. I'll try the cloak macro first and failing that I guess I'm looking at creating a macro.

It's not a link, but it is a url. It would be great to have support for it for technical projects like ours. I'll take a look at your link, thank you.