167116 - aim: URLs do not launch iChat

Status: VERIFIED WONTFIX

(Camino Graveyard :: General, defect)

Description

[benc]

STEPS:
click on URL provided.

OBSERVED BEHAVIOR:
nothing happens.

EXPECTED BEHAVIOR:
iChat would launch or become top-level application, and then handle the AIM URL.

NOTES:
Chimera is not broken, because I installed AIM for Mac OS X and it works.

Best possible fix:
If Apple wants this to work, they need to make iChat the AIM URL handler in the
happymac releases of Mac OS X 10.2. They also might need to add AIM URL handler
support, if you paste an AIM URL into iChat, it doesn't seem to recognize it as
a URL.

(It linkifies HTTP, but actually parses a grin graphic in mailto:[e-mail])

Comment 1

[Simon Fraser [no longer active]]

Steve? Does this work now?

Comment 2

[Steve Dagley]

The test link launches AIM so the capability is there and working.  There may be
a bug that iChat just doesn't register itself as a handler for the aim:
protocol.  I tried using the More Internet prefs panel to force iChat to be the
handler for the aim: protocol but the setting would not stick and I haven't
researched other ways to edit the LS database

Comment 3

[Steve Dagley]

The question now is does the succesful launching of the AIM client mean this bug
should be closed?

Comment 4

[benc]

You can close it. If people are complaining, release note that they need to
install AIM on 10.2.

I contacted apple about this, but they never got back to me.

Comment 5

[Steve Dagley]

As discussed the helper app launching functionality is there if iChat were to
register for the aim protocol.  Closing as WONTFIX

Comment 6

[benc]

VERIFIED