[OT] exchanging data with browsers in Windows

[David Bovill]

Me too - there were some scripts and I got this working ages ago on  
OS9 - but can't find or remember how + OSX is different. Would love  
to do this, especially if the mime types can be registered by the app  
and not the user?


On 23 Jan 2006, at 17:50, Mark Brownell wrote:

> 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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