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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 do I open an external application in Firefox without stopping active requests

My web application needs to get some data from the server and also open an external application via its protocol handler. Unfortunately it doesn't work anymore in recent versions of Firefox. It seems that as soon as the document location is changed,…
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How to return HTML from an external protocol handler in Firefox?

I have an external protocol handler set in about:config as network.protocol-handler.app.myproto=/myapp.exe. I want myapp.exe to return an HTML to Firefox, which should be exhibited just like a webpage is. Is it possible?
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Remove Protocol-Handler from path in cmd

I have a Protocol-Handler for our CRM which is like: "auftragmcc:123456?sven" So if you press on the link, it opens our Invoice-Software with the current invoice (123456) and the correct user (sven). Since we've changed something in the code of the…
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Web Page communication to local secure application

I have a web page (running under https://) that needs to pass information to a local (signed) application. I need this to be able to run under Chrome, IE, Firefox and Opera on both windows and mac. The application cannot connect to the web server…
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Internet Explorer or Edge:- How To display the warning that appear if you open Custom Protocol Handler again

When i click on a custom link such as foo:\ , and there is already a registered protocol handler on windows machine, Internet explorer or Edge display a warning before allowing user to run the custom protocol handler, but if the user select to not…
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Determine HTTP Protocol Version in ASHX Handler

Is it possible to determine the HTTP protocol version (e.g. 1.0 vs. 1.1) used for a request within a .ashx handler? I can see all of the header information except for the version in Request.Params. If not, what avenues are available to discover the…
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how to implement protocols like mailto: or file:?

this relates to this question: Custom URI scheme removes spaces before the "hashtag sign" (#) I have a custom application, which i require to register to a protocol and open it via arguments. i've implemented it using:…
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Browser highlight support for my very own protocol handler

I'm using a class to register my protocol, lets say lorem: to operating system. Its working perfect but I would like to do couple of things. I want to create something like Skype Click to Call. People will share uri's like lorem://12345678 and when…
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Using a custom protocol with XMLHttpRequest in a Firefox add-on

I've created an addon that defines a custom protocol; blabla: for now blabla:*** just redirects to google.com - this works fine. However, I want to execute a XMLHttpRequest to get the real URL it should redirect to. But from the moment I add this 1…
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c# Open Windows 8 Application by url posted on facebook

I'm creating a Metro Application that allows you to share some content. At this moment It's possible to share an url (e.g http//www.stackoverflow.com) on facebook. What I actually want is to invite people (through facebook) to click on the shared…
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Firefox XPCOM extension not working after installation (C++)

I have implemented a protocol handler extension in C++ using Gecko SDK. When the dll is copied to C:\Program Files (x86)\Mozilla Firefox\components every thing works perfectly. But when the the same dll is used to create .xpi installation file, the…
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Error compiling sample firefox protocol hander gecko SDK 3.6

I get the following error while trying to compile a sample implementation of firefox protocol handler. I am using Gecko SDK 3.6, Visual Studio 2010 on Windows Vista. I think the sample is very old and was not build using version 3.6 of the…
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Open a .docx document using desktop word

We get .docx documents from a backend server. The users downloads them to their local machine, edits them jusing MS Word/Excel/... and uploads them back. Is it possible to make angular open the installed Word and register when the user saves the…
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