Re: PERL, Email and Hyperlinks

This sounds more like a problem with the mail client than Perl. You might be forming the hyperlink wrong, but I doubt it. For what it's worth, the correct form is

<a href="URL">text to display</a>
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Also, if you just include the bare URL, most mail clients will linkify it for you.

Just re-read your post and I don't think Windows style network path names (\\server\share\blah\foo) are supported in HTML hyperlinks.

Update If you map a drive (say, Q) to the share on network where the log files are located, I am pretty sure you can make valid HTML hyperlinks like this

<a href="file:///Q|/path/to/log/file.log">log</a>
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Re: Re: PERL, Email and Hyperlinks by iguanodon (Priest) on Apr 17, 2003 at 01:56 UTC
Youre right on both counts. It does depend on the mail client, but you may not even need to map a drive. MS outlook will linkify any of the following: `file:///Q\|/path/to/log/file.log` (note that the a tag is not necessary) `file:///server/share/path/to/log/file.log` `\\server\share\path\to\log\file.log`	[reply] [d/l] [select]