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• 24 Jul 18
  

  stuza1 .

  "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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• 21 Dec 16
  

  skmahawar
  • how do I create my own URL protocol? (e.g. so://…)

  • Ok, please bear with me as this is sort of difficult to explain.

      

    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?
  • 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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• 03 Oct 12
  

  Ivan Tishchenko

  windows uri scheme howto

• 29 Jul 12
  

  Izmir Übel

  HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT/
  your-protocol-name/
  (Default) "URL:your-protocol-name Protocol"
  URL Protocol ""
  shell/
  open/
  command/
  (Default) PathToExecutable
  
  Source: http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/aa767914(v=vs.85).aspx

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  • 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.
  • 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.
  • Here's a list of the registered URI schemes. Each one has an RFC - a document defining it, which is almost a standard.

  • 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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• 20 Mar 09
  

  isaac Mao

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