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Protocol handler handles the well defined or custom url protocol like myprotocol://SomeFolder/SomePage

The protocol handler can be registred by application like email client, torrent application, skype application and thus the application can be open from web by clicking on the link.

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How to open an app from a browser?

Amazon has the button that opens an app as follows. http://img836.imageshack.us/img836/6829/screenshot20100724at111.png Clicking this button opens a 'Amazon Kindle', for my case, 'Amazon Kindle for Mac'. How is this possible? I mean, how can I…
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URI protocol works in Internet Explorer but not in Google chrome

I followed the instructions in this microsoft tutorial. and it works great in IE. but when I attempt this in Chrome it just does a search. Can this be done in Chrome? if so, how?
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Override/Extend the default http protocol Handler on Android

I've used protocol handlers in the past overriding the default http handler and creating my own custom handlers and I was thinking the approach still works on Android. I am trying to override any http or https URL requested by my Android app and…
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Display active document in IE through my Protocol Handler

The protocol handler I have implemented using pluggable protocol interfaces of IE is rendering HTML files pretty well in IE. The next step is being able to render active documents such as doc, ppt, pdf, etc in IE through the protocol handler. I…
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How to register a global protocol handler for electron app?

I have an electron app built with electron-builder where I set a custom protocol handler protocols: [ { name: 'My App', role: 'Viewer', schemes: ['my-app'] } ], The app is installed…
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Why doesn't Firefox wait for WebSocket connection?

I'm writing an application that first tries to open a WebSocket connection (to make sure no others are open; address collision checking) before firing off a custom protocol that will launch a one-time WebSocket server with the address that the…
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Allow HTTP web application to open custom protocol without being prompted always

I have a web application that opens a local application on client machines using a protocol already registered during client setup. The web application gives an alert when opening local application and gives a checkbox to be selected in that alert.…
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Launch a custom protocol handler using javascript in Chrome without a popup?

I am trying to start a custom protocol handler in Chrome via Javascript. I can get the app to start but to do so creates a popup window which then triggers a pop-up blocker. Is there anyway to start the app without a pop-up window? The window…
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How to implement intent(?) on windows 10?

I see some features on windows 10 that are a copy of Android intent concept. For example, when opening games, they open the Xbox programs by triggering an event ms-gamingoverlay. The flow have a windows native UI to select the application to be…
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unable to open local pdf file via custom url protocol

I have created a protocol handler to open acrobat reader dc . So as soon as a link in my webapp is clicked I am trying to launch acrobat with the local pdf file . mypdf:c:\test\form.pdf this is the url I hit This is the command in the protocol…
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Cannot add a custom protocol to an application on the Mac neither with duti nor with plist

I am not experienced much with Mac so any help would be appreciated. First tried to ask here How to map a custom protocol to an application on the Mac? Trying to add my custom protocol with the help of duti run in the post-install script of the…
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Launch a URL in Google Chrome from Internet Explorer with protocol handler

I want to open a URL in chrome from IE. But the URL that i wanted never opens instead home page of chrome browser opens. I followed the steps in below link but no luck. https://www.adamfowlerit.com/2015/05/how-to-launch-a-url-in-google-chrome/ 1.Add…
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How to remove trailing forward slash ("/") from end of parameter passed via custom url protocol to application (VNC Viewer)?

A bit of context: I have a website with links to VNCs for our team to use -- those VNC URLs are formatted like this: vnc://000.000.0.0:5901 Most of our team uses Macbooks, and MacOS handles these urls by default to open Screen Sharing. However, one…
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Changed behaviour 0.76 -> 0.77 // always open these types of links in the associated app

we've imeplemented an own protocol-handler "navision" in Windows. Until Chrome V0.76 we could open the links, click on "always open these types of links in the associated app", and everything was fine. Since Chrome V0.77 this checkbox is gone!…
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How to fix the execution of multiple Protocol Handler Calls?

I work on an Angular application right now which tries to call multiple URL Protocol Handler Calls in short succession. (For testing purposes we have 10 Calls with 0.5s delay between each other which are configured to open notepad.exe inside my…
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