Support an application's own URL scheme from both the application and any web browser
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Hi,
I would like my cross-platform application (Windows, Linux and OS X) to support its own URL scheme (e.g. myapp://some.stuff/). Indeed, I have some HTML documentation which my users can access from both my application's website as well as from the application itself (using QtHelp and a QWebView widget). So, what I would like is that if I have a link, in my HTML documentation, which points to something like myapp://some.stuff/, then my application would handle that URL, no matter whether that link is opened from my application or some web browser.
Any ideas?...
Cheers, Alan.
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It's called URL Protocol Handler.
For windows it is easy done with the registry entry:
http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/aa767914(v=vs.85).aspxYou can also register URL Handlers under Gnome & KDE, have no idea about Mac.
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Thanks AcerExtensa. I have since found out a bit more about what I am after (e.g. see http://kb.mozillazine.org/Register_protocol) and indeed it's dead easy on Windows, while there doesn't seem to be a simple solution as such on Linux and OS X.