protocol-handler

How can I add a custom url handler on Windows. Like iTunes itms://

I would like telnet://blah to open putty and not the native windows telnet client. I don't even know what this 'feature' is called under windows so I'm having no luck find any information about it. Thanks in advance, Jan ...

Can Delphi be used to create and handle a custom protocol handler?

We have a need to interoperate between one of our web apps and a Win32 app created in Delphi. A colleague suggested using a custom protocol handler like ourcompany://something to pass information to the app. Is this possible with Delphi (5 Enterprise), or not? If it's available in later versions, we'll look to sourcing a license for t...

How to open an app from a browser?

Amazon has the button that opens an app as follows. Clicking this button opens a 'Amazon Kindle', for my case, 'Amazon Kindle for Mac'. How is this possible? I mean, how can I program to do this job? It's definitely not Flash. I tried to use button to open an App using button provided by HTML, but I couldn't make it because of the s...

Determine HTTP Protocol Version in ASHX Handler

Is it possible to determine the HTTP protocol version (e.g. 1.0 vs. 1.1) used for a request within a .ashx handler? I can see all of the header information except for the version in Request.Params. If not, what avenues are available to discover the HTTP protocol version when processing an HTTP request in ASP.Net? ...

Creating protocol handler in new Firefox ?

I just came to know that Forefox no longer support XPCOM component for creating extensions .. I want to create an extension which will handle my protocol which will collect information from different sources via my NPRUNTIME plugin and render webpage accordingly .. in past I used to create protocol handler by implementing nsIProtocolHand...