Questions tagged [custom-protocol]
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sending video by hand-made protocol
I'm going to develop an application, whose main task would be send video frames captured from device camera to server. Server uses protocol over TCP. I heard that Apple restricts developers from using any video streaming protocols, except HTTP live…
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Why chrome shows alert randomly when try to open custom protocol url with location.href?
i had took a look to another threads about chrome and custom protocol apps, but i couldn't resolve a doubt i've got. In my web app, when you click a button it fire a new tab with an webpage (window.open(url, "_blank")). The new tab is opened with…
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How secure is data passed via Custom Protocol Handler?
Let's say you set up a custom protocol handler to run an application with some startup data, right?
myapp:\\somedata
How secure is that data? I'm having trouble finding any resources talking about:
Do browsers cache this data?
Can other…
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Patching a closed source network application to read from file
So let me explain, I want to fuzz a closed source application named Y that implements a custom protocol let's name the protocol X. Y is written in C.
Is there a way to patch the send/read family functions to read from file instead of the…
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Serial Port device protocol safe practice: Identification, polling
I'm creating a simple device that sends data to a Windows PC over serial COM ports.
I'd like the software to be able to scan the available COM ports until it recognizes the device. The problem is, if the PC tries to initiate the handshake with a…
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Can CefSharp browser navigation be avoided after custom protocol handling?
I have a simple custom protocol scheme that I want to use
with CefSharp to "start" a file in Windows. The scheme works,
but I can't find a way to prevent chromium from navigating to
that file url (after it's been invoked successfully by…
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Deep links in Spotify as the best practice
I am researching the way Spotify registers its custom protocol scheme in macOS Catalina (Spotify URI).
Spotify uses custom URIs of the following format (notice the absence of slashes)
spotify:track:2nI9BfzCrSWZnCkpF2Nn6O
When I take this link and…
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Rules for using # sign in a custom URL
In an HTTP URL, the hash sign (#) signifies an anchor within a page and may only appear once.
Is this a universal rule for all URLs? If I want to implement a custom URL protocol, can I use the following as a legal…
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Registering an application to a URL
I have been following the msdn docs to simulate a URL opening an application, but in my case, a java application. I created a registry file which looks like this:
Windows Registry Editor Version…
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C# TCP Server Reply Packet Issue
I have been banging my head against my code for the better part of the day, and I am completely stumped. Basically, the source game engine has a documented protocol for its RCON (Remote Console Over Network?) which I am trying to reproduce. There…
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URL schemes (Protocol handler) programming for Windows?
This page explains how to make a Mac application to handle custom URL schemes. How can I do the same thing with PC?
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How To Tell Whether a Protocol is Valid In Javascript
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How to detect browser's protocol handlers?
A certain software (non-browser based) installs a custom protocol when it is installed. Thus, if the software is installed on the system, putting a link that looks like
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How to open Microsoft outlook app from android browser using custom protocol?
The below code works in iOS browsers but doesn't work in android browser. does anyone used custom protocol to launch outlook from android? Appreciated your help.
ms-outlook://compose?to=example@email.com&subject=Subject&body=Message
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Does calling a protocol method pass program flow control?
I know this is quite possibly a lame question, but I've pulled three consecutive all-nighters and I'm very blurry. And I'm new to Objective C and Cocoa Touch.
I've created a class that provides a delegate method. I'll use simplified example code…
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Where to host a java server which does not have an underlying framework?
I've made a little java application, with a very basic server. It's just a few classes and works at a pretty low level, using main, and manually opening sockets. It also uses a very simple custom protocol.
It works great on localhost, and I'm ready…
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