105369 - Allow media type dispatch to a URI

Status: NEW

(Firefox :: File Handling, enhancement)

Description

[Mark Nottingham]

In Preferences->Navigator->Helper Applications,
when you're editing a content-type, add to the 'Handled By' section something
that, with user input, would look like:
  [x] URI [http://aggregator.example.com/newFeed?uri=%s]
where %s is replaced by the URI in the link tag (uri-escaped, of course, and
maybe % isn't such a great escape to use here, but you get the idea...)

The use case for this is in bug 104708; briefly, it's a way to hook up a <link>
tag to a RSS news feed, which, when followed in the site navigation bar, gets
sent to an online aggregation engine. So, users can add news feeds to
my.yahoo.com, my.whatever.com, etc. by following the link in the site nav bar,
which gets dispatched to their configured aggregator.

Comment 1

[sairuh (rarely reading bugmail)]

->file handling

Comment 2

[Bill Law]

Can't get to this till post mozilla1.0.

Comment 3

[Boris Zbarsky [:bzbarsky]]

confirming rfe