I am trying to create my own URL protocol to initate a custom application from a URL in our internal CRM.
I have created the following registry entry as such:
REGEDIT4
[HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\smon1]
#="URL:smon Protocol"
"URL Protocol"=""
[HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\smon1\shell]
[HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\smon1\shell\open]
[HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\smon1\shell\open\command]
#="\"C:\\smon.exe\" \"%1\""
I have the following link on my site:
<a href='smon:1955'>1955</a>
I would expect this to pass the variable 1955 to the aplication c:\smon.exe.
However it is passing the entire variable "smon:1955".
Why is it passing everything instead of the variable?
What am I missing here?
Your not missing anything, that's how the handlers work; the whole URI is passed in the command line. Detect and parse it away.
The rationale is presumably that it allows multiple protocols to be associated with the same executable without needing to provide custom discriminatory switches in the command key.
To give an example
An Example
this is passed to the browser and shown in the url bar as http://www.example.com
Related
I follow the tutorial to set up a TraceLoggingProvider in my application.
During the application runs, I try to use xperf -providers to see if my user event provider is there:
I cannot see the name I defined in TRACELOGGING_DEFINE_PROVIDER but only the defined GUID is shown. Is it intended?
Instead following another tutorial with WPRP file, I just use xperf -start to capture events. And the same: I can only use GUID as parameter, not the defined name! is it also intended?
Anyway, at the end I can view the result properly in WPA and the defined name of my user event provider is visible.
are all my observaton intended?
The name you use in the C++ code is unrelated to the display name on your pc.
You'd have a displayed name (instead of GUID) if this was a manifested installed provider, but TraceLogging isn't manifested (at least, not in the classical sense - an impromptu manifest is embedded into the image, and sent in the messages).
I have a Chrome app that I created with "Create Application Shortcut".
What I need is to open that app with specific url on the same domain.
Example:
chrome_proxy.exe --profile-directory=Default --app-id=xxxxxxxx "https://www.google.com"
Is that possible or any command that achive the same result?
I'm guessing you installed the Chrome app so that the website launches in a standalone window. If this is the case, you can achieve something similar by using the --app command line switch instead.
Eg: chrome_proxy.exe --profile-directory=Default --app="https://www.google.com"
This doesn't strictly open the URL in the existing app, but it does open that specific URL in a standalone window.
Here's the answer what you are looking for.
chrome_proxy.exe --profile-directory=Default --app-id=xxxxxxxx --app-launch-url-for-shortcuts-menu-item="https://youtu.be/dQw4w9WgXcQ"
Using this will work:
chrome_proxy.exe --profile-directory=Default --app-id=xxxxxxxx --app-launch-url-for-shortcuts-menu-item="https://youtu.be/dQw4w9WgXcQ"
It will launch in the special standalone window AND navigate to the specified URL.
Replace xxxxxxxx with the app id (this can be found if you look at the properties of the shortcut it created), but after you create the app this part should already be filled in.
At that point all you need to add is this part:
--app-launch-url-for-shortcuts-menu-item="https://youtu.be/dQw4w9WgXcQ"
Replacing the https://youtu.be/dQw4w9WgXcQ part with the full URL of where you would like to navigate to.
Documentation of the argument can be found here.
Credit due in part to 김보근.
I've found a lot on this page on how to register a certain URI-scheme to open using a particular application in windows.
All Q & A which I've found cover creating an own protocol for this purpose which which is unique for the application which should be registered.
My question is: Is there a way to open usual http/https-Links which contain a certain pattern/format using application A, instead of opening all http/https-links with the browser?
Example: I want, that all links which match the format http://*.domainX.com/* or http://*.domainX.com/*, should be opened using my own application instead of the browser.
Thanks in advance!
On Windows you can try Registering the Application Handling the Custom URI Scheme
To register an application to handle a particular URI scheme, add a
new key, along with the appropriate subkeys and values, to
HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT. The root key must match the URI scheme that is
being added.
Let me know if this helps
I've been given a task to create a protocol similar to callto:, that - upon clicking on a link with it - would automatically launch an installed aplication.
I followed the microsoft guide on how a scheme should look like.
My scheme looks like this:
HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT
slican
URL Protocol = ""
DefaultIcon (Default) = "C:\Users\Okabe\Desktop\slican\SlicanP.exe,1"
shell
open
command (Default) = "C:\Users\Okabe\Desktop\slican\SlicanP.exe" "%1""
I thought that was all and tested it with
test link
test telephone link
There was no reaction whatsoever. Internet Explorer asked me if I want to search for a program that can open the content and Chrome responded with nothing, as if I clicked javascript:void(0).
How to get that worked?
Thank you for your help!
The registration you show works perfectly fine for me when I try it on Windows 7. The local app I registered in place of SlicanP.exe ran fine when I invoked a slican: URL from the Start | Run menu, and from within the address bar of Windows Explorer. So the registration works.
Do be aware that Internet Explorer runs in a lower integrity security context, so it may not have rights to run local programs. When I tried to click on an HTML link to a slican: URL, or type a slican: URL in the address bar, IE had trouble executing the local app (even after prompting for permission). I had to run IE as an administrator, then the local app ran just fine.
Also, you really should not be creating a HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\slican key directly. Create a HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Classes\slican (current user only) or HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\Classes\slican (all users) instead. Refer to MSDN for more details:
HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT Key
Merged View of HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT
Update: Since it works in Windows 7, Microsoft probably changed how URL schemes are registered in Windows 8. For instance, phone/store apps use URI activation:
URI activation (XAML).
URI activation (HTML)
The documentation says there are two ways to register a custom URI scheme:
Internet Explorer uses two mechanisms for registering new pluggable protocol handlers. The first method is to register a URI scheme name and its associated application so that all attempts to navigate to a URI using that scheme launch the application (for example, registering applications to handle mailto: or news: URIs). The second method uses the Asynchronous Pluggable Protocols API, which allows you to define new protocols by mapping the URI scheme to a class.
You are doing the first. Try using the second instead.
However, I just noticed that "Asynchronous Pluggable Protocols" is listed on MSDN in the "Legacy APIs" section, and it has the following note:
Third-party protocol implementations won't load in Windows Store apps using JavaScript, or in the Internet Explorer in the new Windows UI.
So it may or may not work in Windows 8.
Update: I just found this:
Guidelines for file types and URIs
In Windows 8, the relationship between apps and the file types they support differs from previous versions of Windows.
Walkthrough: using Windows 8 Custom Protocol Activation
The file type and protocol association model has changed in Windows 8. Apps are no longer able to programmatically set themselves as the default handler for a file type or protocol. Instead, now the user always controls what the default handler is for a file type or protocol.
Your app can use existing protocols for communication, such as mailto, or create a custom protocol. The protocol activation extension enables you to define a custom protocol or register to handle an existing protocol.
Also have a look at this:
Setting mailto: protocol handler programmatically in Windows 8
And this:
Default Programs
if you go to C:\Users\\AppData\Local\Google\Chrome\User Data
You can edit the Local State file
Search for protocol_handler
The syntax here is a key value pair. I usually copy two mailto: and make sure that you set your protocols to false. This will mean that chrome will treat your new protocols as URI_Handler events
If you have troubles with configuring custom URI scheme, you can compare your own configuration with existing one. For example, "HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT/mailto" - most likely you have it already in your system.
I'm having some real issues in getting local files to open up via a browser using a custom protocol. Now before you shoot me for the custom protocol, this web app will be working in a closed intranet environment, so I have full control to add these protocols for all users. The app works fine at the moment, but I've been requested to bypass the Open / Save dialog for files as it's 'annoying' and 'time consuming' (yeah, I know...I tried to tell them), so here I am in uncharted territory!
Here's an example then of what's not working (I'm using Notepad in this example to test it in Server 2008 R2 with IIS7):
Using the info on Registering an Application to a URL Protocol I've added the following to the registry:
HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT
opentxt
(Default) = "URL:opentxt Protocol"
URL Protocol = ""
DefaultIcon
(Default) = "C:\Windows\System32\notepad.exe,1"
shell
open
command
(Default) = "C:\Windows\System32\notepad.exe" "%1"
So now, in theory, it should be as easy as having the following link in my html
Open File
And it does almost work - click on the link and it opens up Notepad instantly, however I'm presented with this error in notepad.
The filename, directory name, or volume label syntax is incorrect
The file definitely exists in that location (I can read it using http: //localhost/openme.txt), and I've tried to represent the link in as many different formats, such as described here but just can't get it to work.
Any ideas where I'm going wrong?
Quite simply, you're confusing your two different protocols.
Your protocol - and the Url that you pass to notepad - is opentxt://localhost/openme.txt. The working location of the file is http: //localhost/openme.txt. These two are not the same!
HTTP is a protocol that is natively understood by the operating system and, as such, Notepad can pass the HTTP Url to the operating system, which will in turn connect to localhost using port 80 and send a request for that resource. The file is returned, and Notepad has its data. This is all handled within operating system libraries that define the behaviour of HTTP.
Your opentxt protocol doesn't have this support unless you code it. Notepad doesn't know what to do with it - so you see your error message.
A way to handle this easily is to create your own application that handles the protocol. If you had an opentxtHandler.exe wired up through the registry, it would be passed the opentxt:// url, and can then process it appropriately. This might simply mean changing the protocol from opentxt to http and then passing it to Notepad - or it could be something more complex.