diff --git a/IkiWiki/Plugin/img.pm b/IkiWiki/Plugin/img.pm
index 9385f6417..88a3d7b4d 100644
--- a/IkiWiki/Plugin/img.pm
+++ b/IkiWiki/Plugin/img.pm
@@ -106,7 +106,11 @@ sub preprocess (@) { #{{{
if (! defined $params{link} || lc($params{link}) eq 'yes') {
return ''.$imgtag.'';
}
+ elsif ($params{link} =~ /^\w+:\/\//) {
+ return ''.$imgtag.'';
+ }
elsif (length bestlink($params{page}, $params{link})) {
+ add_depends($params{page}, $params{link});
return htmllink($params{page}, $params{destpage},
$params{link}, linktext => $imgtag,
noimageinline => 1);
diff --git a/debian/changelog b/debian/changelog
index 81f31353b..aca79c6d1 100644
--- a/debian/changelog
+++ b/debian/changelog
@@ -3,6 +3,7 @@ ikiwiki (2.17) UNRELEASED; urgency=low
* Improved parentlinks special case for index pages.
* redir: Support for specifying anchors.
* img: Avoid nesting images when linking to another image. Closes: #457780
+ * img: Allow the link parameter to point to an exterior url.
-- Joey Hess Wed, 19 Dec 2007 16:39:07 -0500
diff --git a/doc/plugins/img.mdwn b/doc/plugins/img.mdwn
index 7858fd513..06c8429c8 100644
--- a/doc/plugins/img.mdwn
+++ b/doc/plugins/img.mdwn
@@ -28,7 +28,8 @@ unchanged to the html img tag.
The `link` parameter is used to control whether the scaled down image links
to the full size version. By default it does; set "link=somepage" to link
-to another page instead, or "link=no" to disable the link.
+to another page instead, or "link=no" to disable the link, or
+"link=http://url" to link to a given url.
You can also set default values that will be applied to all later images on
the page, unless overridden. Useful when including many images on a page.
diff --git a/po/ikiwiki.pot b/po/ikiwiki.pot
index 7745cce44..a9102965f 100644
--- a/po/ikiwiki.pot
+++ b/po/ikiwiki.pot
@@ -8,7 +8,7 @@ msgid ""
msgstr ""
"Project-Id-Version: PACKAGE VERSION\n"
"Report-Msgid-Bugs-To: \n"
-"POT-Creation-Date: 2007-12-18 16:38-0500\n"
+"POT-Creation-Date: 2007-12-27 19:28-0500\n"
"PO-Revision-Date: YEAR-MO-DA HO:MI+ZONE\n"
"Last-Translator: FULL NAME \n"
"Language-Team: LANGUAGE \n"
@@ -239,15 +239,15 @@ msgstr ""
msgid "stylesheet not found"
msgstr ""
-#: ../IkiWiki/Plugin/meta.pm:114
+#: ../IkiWiki/Plugin/meta.pm:116
msgid "redir page not found"
msgstr ""
-#: ../IkiWiki/Plugin/meta.pm:126
+#: ../IkiWiki/Plugin/meta.pm:129
msgid "redir cycle is not allowed"
msgstr ""
-#: ../IkiWiki/Plugin/meta.pm:143
+#: ../IkiWiki/Plugin/meta.pm:146
msgid "link is no longer supported"
msgstr ""