When developing an application for a Windows system, there is a registry entry you can make on the client machine that sets a 'protocol handler' in the system. In the same way that mailto links work you can have it launch your application when a specific url (ie. myapp:) is put into a web browser address bar.
This registry entry seems to work for the common browsers and does not require specific setup for each possible browser.
I have in the past, set a custom protocol handler in Firefox on Linux however… I was wondering if there was a way to do it system wide so that it would work the same for Chromium, etc as well?
Best Answer
Not system-wide. But the Gnome registry thingy has entries for that. Use gconf-editor and edit sub entries for
/desktop/gnome/url-handlers. See also here http://ubuntuforums.org/showpost.php?p=710780&postcount=6KDE obviously has a different URI handler database. There is also
xdg-openworth looking into. But I'm not sure if it uses a standardized handler database, or if freedesktop.org is working on it. Sparse docs.Personally I wish they would just use the xdg-mime (and application) database for that. There are pseudo uri/* types in it anyway. And it was somewhat more systematic if you could define handler applications and preference lists for them like with regular MIME types. </rant>