Question

I am in the process of upgrading our internal TWiki from 07 May 2004 to 02 Sep 2004 $Rev: 1742 $ (on a staging server). We use Novell Messenger, which allows starting a chat session using links of the form nim:startIm?username=donsmith. In our old Wiki, this works. In the new version, the links are munged to something like this: http://bunch.qalab.wal.novell.com/twiki/bin/edit/Main/NimstartImusernamedonsmith?

I have searched the support site for issues like this, but fournd none. I have tried disabling plugins, but no luck.

Does anyone have any suggestions for why this is happening?

Environment

-- DonSmith - 20 Jan 2005

Answer

Do you have an InterwikiPlugin rule for nim or did you change the code to recognise nim as a protocol?

-- SamHasler - 21 Jan 2005

Your sysadmin possibly added nim to the allowed protocols in your old TWiki. In the latest production release add it to $regex{linkProtocolPattern} in twiki/lib/TWiki.pm. Mind you, this is not portable, e.g. needs to be added again in a future upgrade.

-- PeterThoeny - 22 Jan 2005

Yes, that was it. Adding nim to $regex{linkProtocolPattern} in twiki/lib/TWiki.pm got it working again. Thanks!

-- DonSmith - 28 Jan 2005