diff --git a/WHATSNEW.md b/WHATSNEW.md
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..d194837fe8d7c7444121a4ea6e7710402ca63abf
--- /dev/null
+++ b/WHATSNEW.md
@@ -0,0 +1,14 @@
+osTicket v1.7
+=============
+
+New Features
+============
+Version 1.7 includes several new features
+
+API
+---
+Interface with osTicket via HTTP requests. Starting with version 1.7,
+tickets are createable by submitting an HTTP POST request to either
+
+    /api/tickets.xml
+    /api/tickets.json
diff --git a/api/.htaccess b/api/.htaccess
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..e230ac6e186f66ada37cca3809396e32b98473e1
--- /dev/null
+++ b/api/.htaccess
@@ -0,0 +1,9 @@
+Options +FollowSymLinks
+RewriteEngine On
+
+RewriteBase /api/
+
+RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
+RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
+
+RewriteRule ^(.*)$ http.php/$1 [L]
diff --git a/include/class.format.php b/include/class.format.php
index 0dbd9e1432215d57b92661e99acfe761fa96b522..45f4301913072fa49d93d7dc3a10019b82536563 100644
--- a/include/class.format.php
+++ b/include/class.format.php
@@ -117,10 +117,12 @@ class Format {
     function clickableurls($text) {
 
         //Not perfect but it works - please help improve it. 
-        $text=preg_replace('/(((f|ht){1}tp(s?):\/\/)[-a-zA-Z0-9@:%_\+.~#?&;\/\/=]+)/','<a href="\\1" target="_blank">\\1</a>', $text);
+        $text=preg_replace('/(((f|ht){1}tp(s?):\/\/)[-a-zA-Z0-9@:%_\+.~#?&;\/\/=]+)/',
+            '<a href="l.php?url=\\1" target="_blank">\\1</a>', $text);
         $text=preg_replace("/(^|[ \\n\\r\\t])(www\.([a-zA-Z0-9_-]+(\.[a-zA-Z0-9_-]+)+)(\/[^\/ \\n\\r]*)*)/",
-                '\\1<a href="http://\\2" target="_blank">\\2</a>', $text);
-        $text=preg_replace("/(^|[ \\n\\r\\t])([_\.0-9a-z-]+@([0-9a-z][0-9a-z-]+\.)+[a-z]{2,4})/",'\\1<a href="mailto:\\2" target="_blank">\\2</a>', $text);
+            '\\1<a href="l.php?url=http://\\2" target="_blank">\\2</a>', $text);
+        $text=preg_replace("/(^|[ \\n\\r\\t])([_\.0-9a-z-]+@([0-9a-z][0-9a-z-]+\.)+[a-z]{2,4})/",
+            '\\1<a href="l.php?url=mailto:\\2" target="_blank">\\2</a>', $text);
 
         return $text;
     }
diff --git a/include/class.misc.php b/include/class.misc.php
index c9a5db034865db1ac621948aacd3a03b9a919b1b..d9f59f47858b23c9c47c2de6ea6c3cedfda61df1 100644
--- a/include/class.misc.php
+++ b/include/class.misc.php
@@ -139,6 +139,22 @@ class Misc {
         return $output;
     }
 
-   
+    function siteBaseUrl() {
+        # Detects Alias-ing
+        $paths = explode('/', $_SERVER['REQUEST_URI']);
+        # Drop the last item -- it will be the php page we're on
+        array_pop($paths);
+        $leading = array();
+        while (count($paths)) {
+            if (in_array($paths[0], array('scp','client')))
+                break;
+            $leading[] = array_shift($paths);
+        }
+        if (count($leading) > 1)
+            return implode('/', $leading);
+        else
+            return '';
+    }
+
 }
 ?>
diff --git a/l.php b/l.php
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..657952e266f1498846db84c663e135997ecb242f
--- /dev/null
+++ b/l.php
@@ -0,0 +1,29 @@
+<?php
+/*********************************************************************
+    l.php
+
+    Link redirection
+
+    Jared Hancock <jared@osticket.com>
+    Copyright (c)  2006-2012 osTicket
+    http://www.osticket.com
+
+    Released under the GNU General Public License WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY.
+    See LICENSE.TXT for details.
+
+    vim: expandtab sw=4 ts=4 sts=4:
+**********************************************************************/
+require 'secure.inc.php';
+
+global $_GET;
+$url = $_GET['url'];
+if (!$url) exit();
+?>
+<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/html4/strict.dtd">
+<html>
+<head>
+    <meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"/>
+    <meta http-equiv="refresh" content="0;<?php echo $url; ?>"/>
+</head>
+<body/>
+</html>
diff --git a/scp/l.php b/scp/l.php
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..2c66c2835eefcafb6711416228fa985878c43428
--- /dev/null
+++ b/scp/l.php
@@ -0,0 +1,29 @@
+<?php
+/*********************************************************************
+    l.php
+
+    Link redirection
+
+    Jared Hancock <jared@osticket.com>
+    Copyright (c)  2006-2012 osTicket
+    http://www.osticket.com
+
+    Released under the GNU General Public License WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY.
+    See LICENSE.TXT for details.
+
+    vim: expandtab sw=4 ts=4 sts=4:
+**********************************************************************/
+require_once 'staff.inc.php';
+
+global $_GET;
+$url = $_GET['url'];
+if (!$url) exit();
+?>
+<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/html4/strict.dtd">
+<html>
+<head>
+    <meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"/>
+    <meta http-equiv="refresh" content="0;<?php echo $url; ?>"/>
+</head>
+<body/>
+</html>