121779 - Need way to bind helper apps to "protocols"

Status: VERIFIED DUPLICATE of bug 33282

(Core :: Networking, enhancement)

Description

[Matthew Cline]

I ran across a weblog where user's with an AIM account have a AIM icon with the
URL "aim:goim?screenname=Khym+Chanur&message=Hi.+Are+you+there?".  I assume that
this works with IE, and there should be some way to make it work with Mozilla,
regardless of platform.  I'm guessing that this would be tied in with helper
apps, but I'm not sure...

Comment 1

[Sebastian Späth]

Have you ever tried "protozilla" (http://mozdev.org). There you can specify any
protocol type and configure very flexible how to handle them. I don't know if i
want to have this in my plain mozilla, though.

Comment 2

[sairuh (rarely reading bugmail)]

file handling

Comment 3

[Bill Law]

there is a way to add Necko protocol handlers, if somebody really wants to get
this working without hacking helper apps.  Future-ing.

Comment 4

[Boris Zbarsky [:bzbarsky]]

See bug 33282 for Linux.  On Windows and MacOS there is an OS panel to set such
bindings; if you tell your OS what app does aim: urls, we will use that app.

aim: is not handled by IE, but is handled by Netscape, internally (using the
Netscape AIM client).

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 33282 ***

Comment 5

[benc]

-> networking
VERIFIED/dupe:

Basically, non-UNIX (Win+Mac) have OS level services for this. Linux does not,
hence the dupe.