Open Bug 1827827 Opened 2 years ago Updated 1 year ago

Add payto protocol to the registerProtocolHandler safelist.

Categories

(Core :: DOM: Core & HTML, enhancement)

Firefox 114
enhancement

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UNCONFIRMED

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(Reporter: rastislav, Unassigned)

References

(Blocks 1 open bug, )

Details

User Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10.15; rv:109.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/111.0

Steps to reproduce:

  1. Click on the payto link on the website
  2. Nothing is happening

Actual results:

Nothing

Expected results:

It should open the related application. It should be in the registerProtocolHandler safelist.

Protocol is documented at RFC 8905.
Whatwg issue: https://github.com/whatwg/html/issues/9154

According to this, the bug should belong to DOM. Hence, moving this bug from DOM:Networking.

Component: Networking → DOM: Core & HTML

Last year we added Payto as a valid scheme for Chromium
We used similar approach that is done for ftp, sftp, ftps
Meaning that payto is considered valid scheme and can be enabled as a feature in Chromium.
Can we create a PR and add payto as a valid scheme for Firefox?
Thank you.

Flags: needinfo?(evilpies)
Flags: needinfo?(evilpies) → needinfo?(zcorpan)
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