How do I create my own URL protocol e g so

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I have seen    http   www    ftp   blah blah    file   blah blah    unreal   blah blah    mailto   blah blah      What is that first section where you see http and the like called   Can I register my own

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The first section is called a protocol and yes you can register your own  On Windows  where I m assuming you re doing this given the C  tag - sorry Mono fans   it s done via the registry

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The first section is called a protocol and yes you can register your own  On Windows  where I m assuming you re doing this given the C  tag - sorry Mono fans   it s done via the registry

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It s called the protocol  The only thing that prevents you from making your own protocol is you have to    Write a browser or user agent of some kinds that understands that protocol  both in its URL form and in the actual data format Write a server that understands that protocol Preferably  have a specification for the protocol so that browser and server can continue to work together    Windows makes  1 really easy  an in many cases this is all you actually need  Viz   Registering an Application to a URL Protocol

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The portion with the HTTP    FTP     etc are called URI Schemes   You can register your own through the registry   HKEY CLASSES ROOT    your-protocol-name       Default      URL your-protocol-name Protocol      URL Protocol        shell        open          command             Default  PathToExecutable   Sources  https   www iana org assignments uri-schemes uri-schemes xhtml            http   msdn microsoft com en-us library aa767914 v vs 85  aspx

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This is different for each browser  in IE and windows you need to create what they call a pluggable protocol handler    The basic steps are as follows    Implement the IInternetProtocol interface  Implement the IInternetProtocolRoot interface  Implement the IClassFactory interface  Optional  Implement the IInternetProtocolInfo interface  Support for the HTTP protocol is provided by the transaction handler  If IInternetProtocolInfo is implemented  provide support for PARSE SECURITY URL and PARSE SECURITY DOMAIN so the URL security zone manager can handle the security properly  Write the code for your protocol handler  Provide support for BINDF NO UI and BINDF SILENTOPERATION  Add a subkey for your protocol handler in the registry under HKEY CLASSES ROOT PROTOCOLS Handler  Create a string value  CLSID  under the subkey and set the string to the CLSID of your protocol handler    See About Asynchronous Pluggable Protocols on MSDN for more details on the windows side  There is also a sample in the windows SDK   A quick google also showed this article on codeproject  http   www codeproject com KB IP DataProtocol aspx    Finally  as a security guy I have to point out that this code needs to be battle hardened  It s at a high risk because to do it reliably you can t do it in managed code and have to do it in C    I suppose you could use VB6   You should consider whether you really need to do this and if you do  design it carefully and code it securely  An attacker can easily control the content that gets passed to you by simply including a link on a page  For example if you have a simple buffer overflow then nobody better do this   lt a href  custom foooo insert long string for buffer overflow here   gt  Click me for free porn lt  a gt    Strongly consider using strsafe and the new secure CRT methods included in the VC8 and above compilers  See http   blogs msdn com michael howard archive 2006 02 27 540123 aspx if you have no idea what I m talking about

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It s called the protocol  The only thing that prevents you from making your own protocol is you have to    Write a browser or user agent of some kinds that understands that protocol  both in its URL form and in the actual data format Write a server that understands that protocol Preferably  have a specification for the protocol so that browser and server can continue to work together    Windows makes  1 really easy  an in many cases this is all you actually need  Viz   Registering an Application to a URL Protocol

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Here s a list of the registered URI schemes  Each one has an RFC - a document defining it  which is almost a standard  The RFC tells the developers of new applications  such as browsers  ftp clients  etc   what they need to support  If you need a new base-level protocol  you can use an unregistered one  The other answers tell you how  Please keep in mind you can do lots of things with the existing protocols  thus gaining their existing implementations

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Open notepad and paste the code below into it  Change  YourApp  into your app s name  Save it to YourApp reg and execute it by clicking on it in explorer  That s it  Cheers  Erwin Haantjes  REGEDIT4   HKEY CLASSES ROOT YourApp     URL YourApp Protocol   URL Protocol       HKEY CLASSES ROOT YourApp DefaultIcon       C   Program Files  YourApp  YourApp exe      HKEY CLASSES ROOT YourApp shell    HKEY CLASSES ROOT YourApp shell open    HKEY CLASSES ROOT YourApp shell open command       C   Program Files  YourApp  YourApp exe      1      2      3      4      5      6      7      8      9

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The first section is called a protocol and yes you can register your own  On Windows  where I m assuming you re doing this given the C  tag - sorry Mono fans   it s done via the registry

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For most Microsoft products  Internet Explorer  Office   open file  dialogs etc  you can register an application to be run when URI with appropriate prefix is opened  This is a part of more common explanation - how to implement your own protocol   For Mozilla the explanation is here  Java - here

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A Protocol   I found this  it appears to be a local setting for a computer     http   kb mozillazine org Register protocol

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Open notepad and paste the code below into it  Change  YourApp  into your app s name  Save it to YourApp reg and execute it by clicking on it in explorer  That s it  Cheers  Erwin Haantjes  REGEDIT4   HKEY CLASSES ROOT YourApp     URL YourApp Protocol   URL Protocol       HKEY CLASSES ROOT YourApp DefaultIcon       C   Program Files  YourApp  YourApp exe      HKEY CLASSES ROOT YourApp shell    HKEY CLASSES ROOT YourApp shell open    HKEY CLASSES ROOT YourApp shell open command       C   Program Files  YourApp  YourApp exe      1      2      3      4      5      6      7      8      9

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The portion with the HTTP    FTP     etc are called URI Schemes   You can register your own through the registry   HKEY CLASSES ROOT    your-protocol-name       Default      URL your-protocol-name Protocol      URL Protocol        shell        open          command             Default  PathToExecutable   Sources  https   www iana org assignments uri-schemes uri-schemes xhtml            http   msdn microsoft com en-us library aa767914 v vs 85  aspx

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A Protocol   I found this  it appears to be a local setting for a computer     http   kb mozillazine org Register protocol

User · Answer

The portion with the HTTP    FTP     etc are called URI Schemes   You can register your own through the registry   HKEY CLASSES ROOT    your-protocol-name       Default      URL your-protocol-name Protocol      URL Protocol        shell        open          command             Default  PathToExecutable   Sources  https   www iana org assignments uri-schemes uri-schemes xhtml            http   msdn microsoft com en-us library aa767914 v vs 85  aspx

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The portion with the HTTP    FTP     etc are called URI Schemes   You can register your own through the registry   HKEY CLASSES ROOT    your-protocol-name       Default      URL your-protocol-name Protocol      URL Protocol        shell        open          command             Default  PathToExecutable   Sources  https   www iana org assignments uri-schemes uri-schemes xhtml            http   msdn microsoft com en-us library aa767914 v vs 85  aspx

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It s called the protocol  The only thing that prevents you from making your own protocol is you have to    Write a browser or user agent of some kinds that understands that protocol  both in its URL form and in the actual data format Write a server that understands that protocol Preferably  have a specification for the protocol so that browser and server can continue to work together    Windows makes  1 really easy  an in many cases this is all you actually need  Viz   Registering an Application to a URL Protocol

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Here s a list of the registered URI schemes  Each one has an RFC - a document defining it  which is almost a standard  The RFC tells the developers of new applications  such as browsers  ftp clients  etc   what they need to support  If you need a new base-level protocol  you can use an unregistered one  The other answers tell you how  Please keep in mind you can do lots of things with the existing protocols  thus gaining their existing implementations

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A Protocol   I found this  it appears to be a local setting for a computer     http   kb mozillazine org Register protocol

User · Answer

For most Microsoft products  Internet Explorer  Office   open file  dialogs etc  you can register an application to be run when URI with appropriate prefix is opened  This is a part of more common explanation - how to implement your own protocol   For Mozilla the explanation is here  Java - here

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This is different for each browser  in IE and windows you need to create what they call a pluggable protocol handler    The basic steps are as follows    Implement the IInternetProtocol interface  Implement the IInternetProtocolRoot interface  Implement the IClassFactory interface  Optional  Implement the IInternetProtocolInfo interface  Support for the HTTP protocol is provided by the transaction handler  If IInternetProtocolInfo is implemented  provide support for PARSE SECURITY URL and PARSE SECURITY DOMAIN so the URL security zone manager can handle the security properly  Write the code for your protocol handler  Provide support for BINDF NO UI and BINDF SILENTOPERATION  Add a subkey for your protocol handler in the registry under HKEY CLASSES ROOT PROTOCOLS Handler  Create a string value  CLSID  under the subkey and set the string to the CLSID of your protocol handler    See About Asynchronous Pluggable Protocols on MSDN for more details on the windows side  There is also a sample in the windows SDK   A quick google also showed this article on codeproject  http   www codeproject com KB IP DataProtocol aspx    Finally  as a security guy I have to point out that this code needs to be battle hardened  It s at a high risk because to do it reliably you can t do it in managed code and have to do it in C    I suppose you could use VB6   You should consider whether you really need to do this and if you do  design it carefully and code it securely  An attacker can easily control the content that gets passed to you by simply including a link on a page  For example if you have a simple buffer overflow then nobody better do this   lt a href  custom foooo insert long string for buffer overflow here   gt  Click me for free porn lt  a gt    Strongly consider using strsafe and the new secure CRT methods included in the VC8 and above compilers  See http   blogs msdn com michael howard archive 2006 02 27 540123 aspx if you have no idea what I m talking about

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A Protocol   I found this  it appears to be a local setting for a computer     http   kb mozillazine org Register protocol

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You don t really have to do any registering as such   I ve seen many programs  like emule  create their own protocol specificier  that s what I think it s called    After that  you basically just have to set some values in the registry as to what program handles that protocol   I m not sure if there s any official registry of protocol specifiers  There isn t really much to stop you from creating your own protocol specifier for your own application if you want people to open your app from their browser

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This is different for each browser  in IE and windows you need to create what they call a pluggable protocol handler    The basic steps are as follows    Implement the IInternetProtocol interface  Implement the IInternetProtocolRoot interface  Implement the IClassFactory interface  Optional  Implement the IInternetProtocolInfo interface  Support for the HTTP protocol is provided by the transaction handler  If IInternetProtocolInfo is implemented  provide support for PARSE SECURITY URL and PARSE SECURITY DOMAIN so the URL security zone manager can handle the security properly  Write the code for your protocol handler  Provide support for BINDF NO UI and BINDF SILENTOPERATION  Add a subkey for your protocol handler in the registry under HKEY CLASSES ROOT PROTOCOLS Handler  Create a string value  CLSID  under the subkey and set the string to the CLSID of your protocol handler    See About Asynchronous Pluggable Protocols on MSDN for more details on the windows side  There is also a sample in the windows SDK   A quick google also showed this article on codeproject  http   www codeproject com KB IP DataProtocol aspx    Finally  as a security guy I have to point out that this code needs to be battle hardened  It s at a high risk because to do it reliably you can t do it in managed code and have to do it in C    I suppose you could use VB6   You should consider whether you really need to do this and if you do  design it carefully and code it securely  An attacker can easily control the content that gets passed to you by simply including a link on a page  For example if you have a simple buffer overflow then nobody better do this   lt a href  custom foooo insert long string for buffer overflow here   gt  Click me for free porn lt  a gt    Strongly consider using strsafe and the new secure CRT methods included in the VC8 and above compilers  See http   blogs msdn com michael howard archive 2006 02 27 540123 aspx if you have no idea what I m talking about

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You don t really have to do any registering as such   I ve seen many programs  like emule  create their own protocol specificier  that s what I think it s called    After that  you basically just have to set some values in the registry as to what program handles that protocol   I m not sure if there s any official registry of protocol specifiers  There isn t really much to stop you from creating your own protocol specifier for your own application if you want people to open your app from their browser

User · Answer

You don t really have to do any registering as such   I ve seen many programs  like emule  create their own protocol specificier  that s what I think it s called    After that  you basically just have to set some values in the registry as to what program handles that protocol   I m not sure if there s any official registry of protocol specifiers  There isn t really much to stop you from creating your own protocol specifier for your own application if you want people to open your app from their browser

User · Answer

For most Microsoft products  Internet Explorer  Office   open file  dialogs etc  you can register an application to be run when URI with appropriate prefix is opened  This is a part of more common explanation - how to implement your own protocol   For Mozilla the explanation is here  Java - here

User · Answer

This is different for each browser  in IE and windows you need to create what they call a pluggable protocol handler    The basic steps are as follows    Implement the IInternetProtocol interface  Implement the IInternetProtocolRoot interface  Implement the IClassFactory interface  Optional  Implement the IInternetProtocolInfo interface  Support for the HTTP protocol is provided by the transaction handler  If IInternetProtocolInfo is implemented  provide support for PARSE SECURITY URL and PARSE SECURITY DOMAIN so the URL security zone manager can handle the security properly  Write the code for your protocol handler  Provide support for BINDF NO UI and BINDF SILENTOPERATION  Add a subkey for your protocol handler in the registry under HKEY CLASSES ROOT PROTOCOLS Handler  Create a string value  CLSID  under the subkey and set the string to the CLSID of your protocol handler    See About Asynchronous Pluggable Protocols on MSDN for more details on the windows side  There is also a sample in the windows SDK   A quick google also showed this article on codeproject  http   www codeproject com KB IP DataProtocol aspx    Finally  as a security guy I have to point out that this code needs to be battle hardened  It s at a high risk because to do it reliably you can t do it in managed code and have to do it in C    I suppose you could use VB6   You should consider whether you really need to do this and if you do  design it carefully and code it securely  An attacker can easily control the content that gets passed to you by simply including a link on a page  For example if you have a simple buffer overflow then nobody better do this   lt a href  custom foooo insert long string for buffer overflow here   gt  Click me for free porn lt  a gt    Strongly consider using strsafe and the new secure CRT methods included in the VC8 and above compilers  See http   blogs msdn com michael howard archive 2006 02 27 540123 aspx if you have no idea what I m talking about

User · Answer

It s called the protocol  The only thing that prevents you from making your own protocol is you have to    Write a browser or user agent of some kinds that understands that protocol  both in its URL form and in the actual data format Write a server that understands that protocol Preferably  have a specification for the protocol so that browser and server can continue to work together    Windows makes  1 really easy  an in many cases this is all you actually need  Viz   Registering an Application to a URL Protocol

User · Answer

You don t really have to do any registering as such   I ve seen many programs  like emule  create their own protocol specificier  that s what I think it s called    After that  you basically just have to set some values in the registry as to what program handles that protocol   I m not sure if there s any official registry of protocol specifiers  There isn t really much to stop you from creating your own protocol specifier for your own application if you want people to open your app from their browser

User · Answer

The first section is called a protocol and yes you can register your own  On Windows  where I m assuming you re doing this given the C  tag - sorry Mono fans   it s done via the registry

User · Answer

Here s a list of the registered URI schemes  Each one has an RFC - a document defining it  which is almost a standard  The RFC tells the developers of new applications  such as browsers  ftp clients  etc   what they need to support  If you need a new base-level protocol  you can use an unregistered one  The other answers tell you how  Please keep in mind you can do lots of things with the existing protocols  thus gaining their existing implementations

User · Answer

Here s a list of the registered URI schemes  Each one has an RFC - a document defining it  which is almost a standard  The RFC tells the developers of new applications  such as browsers  ftp clients  etc   what they need to support  If you need a new base-level protocol  you can use an unregistered one  The other answers tell you how  Please keep in mind you can do lots of things with the existing protocols  thus gaining their existing implementations

User · Answer

For most Microsoft products  Internet Explorer  Office   open file  dialogs etc  you can register an application to be run when URI with appropriate prefix is opened  This is a part of more common explanation - how to implement your own protocol   For Mozilla the explanation is here  Java - here

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