159489 - Add Gnutella (URI) support to Mozilla

Status: RESOLVED WONTFIX

(SeaMonkey :: General, enhancement)

Description

[Chris Kaleiki]

For Internet users who are using Mozilla who do not have a Gnutella client, 
Mozilla should output a similar error in return:

MAGNET: Not supported
You need a Gnutella client to launch this type of URI. 
 
     A Gnutella client can be obtained from the following portal:
     Zeropaid <http://www.zeropaid.com/>


Gnutella:// Not supported
You need a Gnutella client to launch this type of URI.
     A Gnutella client can be obtained from the following portal:
     Zeropaid <http://www.zeropaid.com/>

Why does Mozilla need this? Gnutella URI's (MAGNET and Gnutella://) are 
becomming more and more popular now on websites, and users are going to be 
clueless once they are given a "Syntax Error" message. This would be much more 
user firendly, and informative. Though I do recommend revamping the error 
message itself, I just came up with it on the fly :P It should include more 
information of what Gnutella is, what a MAGNET or Gnutella:// type URI is, and 
where to obtain a client to parse these types of URI's and download the file 
they desire.

I currently know of no other Browswer which has any type of Gnutella support.

Comment 1

[Boris Zbarsky [:bzbarsky]]

Are these two peotocol schemes actually properly registered?

Comment 2

[Daniel Wang]

and AOL is used by millions of people worldwide, so mozilla
should ask the user to get an AOL account when it encounters
aol://blah ?

besides, it's a system issue, not a browser issue.

resolve bug as wontfix