[OT] exchanging data with browsers in Windows

Mark Brownell gizmotron at earthlink.net
Mon Jan 23 11:50:48 EST 2006


On Friday, January 20, 2006,  Ben Rubinstein wrote:

> Firstly, I've defined a custom protocol type, eg "ben:" instead of 
> "ftp:",
> "mailto:", etc.  Once the user's configured their system to register 
> my app as
> the handler for the protocol "ben:", clicking on a link in a web page 
> invokes
> my app, which is sent an AppleEvent from which it can read the full 
> URL.  (And
> this works regardless of browser - ie the mapping of protocol to app 
> occurs at
> a system level.)

How is this done? I mean is it possible to configure the system to 
register an app as associated with a file type like ".mtml" Or does 
this have to be done by the user? Is there an appleEvent script from 
which it can read the full URL? How was that done?

Please help,

Mark




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