385114 - impl platform-specific code for find protocol/content-handling local apps

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 400852

(Core Graveyard :: File Handling, enhancement)

Description

[Dan Mosedale (:dmosedale, :dmose)]

There may be some platform-specific code that needs to be written to get the list of apps that is registered to handle a MIME-type or a content-type locally so that they can be offered as options to the user.  beltzner, faaborg: should we be shooting to list all apps that are registered as knowing how to handle a specific content type, or just the default?

Comment 1

[Dan Mosedale (:dmosedale, :dmose)]

The basics of this code already exist and are in the tree, which is to say that we can get at least one handler for a given protocol or MIME-type on any platform if it exists.  I assert this is sufficient for Firefox3.  Windows is improving its support for more apps in the MIME-type case in bug 348808.  

I suspect that at some point, the Mac and Linux code could be changed to do something similar, and probably want to be updated to newer system-level APIs.

Comment 2

[Shawn Wilsher :sdwilsh]

This doesn't actually block Bug 372441

Comment 3

[Dan Mosedale (:dmosedale, :dmose)]

Bug 400852 covers this for windows, and there are other bugs open for application picker support on other platforms.