Support for URLs ?

[ponceta]

The more we go, the more we will reference files directly as URLs, like

https://www.pully.ch/media/2427312/aeguisan3_20210804au20210902.pdf

or

https://ged.pully.ch:443/app/linkto/q4pYYWfDaYS

QGIS does badly propose widgets for that specific type of format, would it be a QGIS enhancement required or do we want a mixed document/url approach.

Or Propose an URL widget type?

Thoughts?

[domi4484]

@ponceta something is actually moving in QGIS about this: qgis/QGIS#44533 (review)
I think you will need a WebDAV back end thought.

[jeremyferris]

@domi4484 I would also like to use the Document Management System for referencing URLs. My specific use case would be images and videos primarily, but it might also be nice to reference other file types and possibly html documents (websites) as well. At a minimum, to be able to open the system viewer if thumbnail support for this is problematic.

Do you have any thoughts on how this might be achieved?

[domi4484]

@jeremyferris This should be fairly easy doable as the QML component we are using is able to load image from URLs.
Not sure about html documents, this would require a bit of research on how to do that.