Currently in 4.x, we have no way to support what a lot of older email systems support which is embedding some particular file anywhere in a document. For example, in ccMail, I could do something like: "Hey Akkana, check out this nifty Word Document: [image]" Notice the file:// link for the image. Well, in 4.x, we would just send this email and the person receiving would click on the icon and receive the "Can locate file:///...." message. Well, if you give me all file:/// links, I can package them up as part of the MHTML message and this stuff would work. Then, on the editor side, if you would allow for any drag and dropped file to just create some sort of icon (resource://....) with the link defined to be the file that was dropped on Ender, this would all work! I know I hacked up an email message that did this in 4.x when I started enhancing libmime and people were charged. Unfortunately, you had to hack the source of the MHTML to make it work, but if you give me the file:/// url's, this stuff would be very easy to implement. Also, there are lots of times that people send HTML that lives on their local disks to people and if they include any images, these will all be broken links on the receiving side. This would fix that also.

I'll try to get this in for M9.

file: URL matching for GetEmbeddedObjects has been checked in. QA: In the editor debug menu (do QA builds show the debug menu?), there's an item called "Show Embedded Objects", which should print to stdout IMG, EMBED, and A FILE: tags within the current document. It should not show links which are not file: (though Rich, I wonder if I should change it to show all links, in case mime wants to remap local links or something?). It doesn't print anything useful for each tag, just the fact that it detects the tags at all (the right number and type of tags) is the important thing. If release builds don't have the debug menu, then maybe Rich can verify.

Hi Akkana, I have this mostly running now. I have one problem with refcount stuff but the core is working. I think that I may want all file:// references. This is the big thing that I want to get working. I would like the following HTML to work: <a href="file:///C|/word.doc"><img SRC="file:///C|/word.jpg" height=41 width=47></a> ...so you would have to give me the "a href=file://" Am I getting these? If so, which interface should I be using to get this information. Thanks! - rhp

In your example, GetEmbeddedObjects will give you both the a node (because its url is a file:) and the img node (because it always returns img nodes, regardless of what their src tags say).

RHP, is this working for you now?

yes, this is working fine now...you can send HTML messages with links that point to files on disk and it will package it all up and send it. - rhp

marking verified fixed in 7/26 build.