One cute hack for MacOS X (... or nice internet protocol helper hacks...)

[Chipp Walters]

I do it for Windows on ButtonGadget through the registry, but there is a 
serious caveat:

When you setup a MIME type for a document of any kind to download and 
autorun, it is up to the programmer to insure it is safe. In the case of 
ButtonGadget, I test each download with lock messages ON until I know 
it's one of my files. If I didn't, then someone could create a simple BG 
stack and wipe out someone's hard drive instantly. A very big security 
issue!

-Chipp

Ken Ray wrote:
> On 1/2/06 11:21 PM, "Andre Garzia" <soapdog at mac.com> wrote:
> 
> 
>>Hi Folks,
>>
>>this email is about a little nice hack I made today. Here I present
>>the steps for making URLs like:
>>
>>x-dreamcard://www.mysweetserver/mySweetStack.rev
> 
> 
> That's so cool, Andre! Nicely done... any idea on how to do it on Windows?