1871955 - Add "lbry" to the registerProtocolHandler allowlist

Status: RESOLVED WONTFIX

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

Description

[Ben [:ben221199]]

Steps to reproduce:

I opened the console and entered the following line:

navigator.registerProtocolHandler('lbry','https://example.com/lbry/%s');

Actual results:

The console returned the following error:

Uncaught DOMException: Navigator.registerProtocolHandler: Permission denied to add a protocol handler for lbry

Expected results:

The function should return undefined and the browser should ask if I wanted to add this protocol handler.

Comment 1

[Tom S]

The list of allowed schemes does not include lbry. You can ask the HTML spec to be extended.

Comment 2

[Ben [:ben221199]]

I have created an issue and a pull request on the HTML repository of WHATWG: https://github.com/whatwg/html/issues/9016 and https://github.com/whatwg/html/pull/9017. Before WHATWG wants to add lbry to the allowlist, I need 2 implementers being interested and also have bugs filed, so that is what I did.

Comment 3

[Tom S]

You should have definitely written that in your initial message.

Comment 4

[Ben [:ben221199]]

Can I conclude that Mozilla is interested in implementing this as soon as the spec is updated? In that case I will add a comment on the issue. Chromium already agreed.

Comment 5

[Ben [:ben221199]]

Hi @peterv, can I conclude that Mozilla is interested in implementing this as soon as the spec is updated? In that case I will add a comment on the issue. Chromium already agreed. WebKit cannot implement it yet, because they don't support registerProtocolHandler at this moment.

Comment 6

[Peter Van der Beken [:peterv]]

Well, there's also https://github.com/whatwg/html/issues/9158 which we might want to do instead.

Comment 7

[Peter Van der Beken [:peterv]]

(In reply to Ben [:ben221199] from comment #5)

Hi @peterv, can I conclude that Mozilla is interested in implementing this as soon as the spec is updated?

And no, you shouldn't conclude that. The github issue is where we would note our interest.

Comment 8

[Simon Pieters [:zcorpan]]

We'd like to change this process, as :peterv noted above, so that we have less of a gatekeeping role here. In the meantime we don't have any particular interest in this scheme.