FMP Protocol & Gmail

[DarrenFullCity]

Hello ...

 

So have a web site that generates an fmp link, and emails that out to a user ... so something like:

 

<a href=fmp://myfmsserver?script=myscript>Click here</a>

 

I open that message from from Mac Mail, and it opens the FMS db just fine.

 

However, when you open it in gmail, there is no link, it strips out all of the href link data, leaving you with "Click Here". Same result on all browsers. So basically looks like Gmail doesn't have a protocol handler for fmp. Even if you send out the raw link ... fmp://myfmserver?script=myscript without the href tag, it creates a link out of everything following "fmp://", so it still won't work.

 

Anyone have experience with this or a nice workaround?

 

Thanks ... Darren.

[webko]

What happens when you quote the link:

 

<a href="fmp://myfmsserver?script=myscript">Click here</a>

[Josh Ormond]

Gmail doesn't take HTML, so you have to add the link. Which gmail strips out the link and leave Click Here as plain text.

 

Pasting the link directly in gmail, links only the server address ( if it has URL format ) and the words following the address up to the first space.

 

So you get "fmp://myfmsserver?script=myscript"

 

 

What happens when you quote the link:

<a href="fmp://myfmsserver?script=myscript">Click here</a>