url-scheme

How do we get arround Apple's decission to skip sms templates for iPhone?

Old title : How to code an iPhone app that will send predefined smses to predefined numbers? Many people I am sure use a smart netbank that lets you transfer money from your savings account to your credit card account, or just ask for the saldo, using just SMS. I have been doing this for a few years now on my 10 year old nokia phone. It...

iPhone Safari: check if URL scheme is supported in javascript?

Is there any way to check if a URL scheme is currently registered on the phone... with javascript? ...

How to tell if Cocoa Touch device can make calls?

I'm writing an iPhone application that provides a button to call a phone number. I'm using code like the following to dial the number using a tel: URL in the usual way: NSURL* contactTelURL = [NSURL URLWithString:[NSString stringWithFormat:@"tel:%@", ...

How to mark-up phone numbers?

Hi, I want to mark up a phone number as callable link in an HTML document. I have read the microformats approach, and I know, that the tel: scheme would be standard, but is quite literally nowhere implemented. Skype defines, as far as I know, skype: and callto:, the latter having gained some popularity. I assume, that other companies h...

Should I store the connection scheme for an OpenID?

Should I store the connection scheme, http or https, for an OpenID when someone logs in into my web site? Or just what comes afterward: http://pupeno.com or pupeno.com? ...

htaccess (https to http)

Hi, this is yet another .htaccess question. And I already did my literature review. Would appreciate any help. Requirements: Force HTTPS only for a few URLs. Browser shouldn't say partially encrypted page for SSL pages. I am using CodeIgnitor and tweaked the *base_url* in config.php to: $config['base_url'] = (isset($_SERVER['HTTPS...

How to handle with a default URL scheme

Hi. I want to build URI (or URL scheme) support in my app. I do a LSSetDefaultHandlerForURLScheme() in my + (void)initialize and I setted the specific URL schemes also in my info.plist. So I have URL schemes without Apple Script or Apple Events. When I call myScheme: in my favorit browser the system activates my app. The problem is,...

Launch iPhone app from link in email

Hi, I've been trying out the URL schemes in the iPhone SDK and I have got my application to launch using a custom URL scheme like "myap://Dosomething" but that is not really practical for what I want. Is it possible to register a scheme somehow that would allow links in emails like "http://www.mydomain.com/" to launch my application, li...

Is it possible to test whether a user's browser/OS supports a given type of link using javascript?

Is it possible to test whether a user's OS/browser supports a given url scheme using javascript (or anything else)? For example, mailto: isn't setup on most user's computer that only use webmail. Would it be possible to somehow catch attempts to click a mailto link and pop up a more descriptive explanation than the browser error messag...

How to check for custom url scheme on iphone?

Hey guys, I want to use custom url schemes in my app, for example calling navigons mobile navigator. First of all I want to check whether navigon is installed or at least whether the custom url scheme "navigon://" has already been registered. Any Ideas? Thanks a lot. ...

custom URL scheme doesn't work! Navigon AppInteract

Hey guys, It is really frustrating me. I used the doc provided by Navigon itself. Unfortunately it doesn't work as expected. Navigon launches, but stops at the main menu. All I do is this: NSString *myTestStr = [NSString stringWithFormat:@"navigon://App|Another place|FRA|75008|PARIS|rue de Turin|17|2.324621|48.881273"]; NSString *...

handleOpenURL not called using a custom url schema in iPhone OS

Hi, I have successfuly added my own url schemes to my App. The App correctly launches using the schemes. Now I want to handle the incoming data but the delegate is not called. It is an universal app and I have added the following function to both AppDelegates: - (BOOL)application:(UIApplication *)application handleOpenURL:(NSURL *)url...

Choosing what Iphone app must open one url schema

Hi All I'm able to open a url scheme with my apps. However i can have more that one app with the same url scheme registered so i would like let user choose the default app for the scheme. I need to use the same scheme for all my apps. Now by default iphone uses the last app installed that can open the schema. Have you same idea to s...

How to handle a custom URL scheme in Webkit GTK?

Let's say I want to use a WebKitWebView in GTK to display some static HTML pages. These pages use a custom URL scheme, let's call it custom://. This scheme represents a local file whose location is not known beforehand, at the time the HTML is generated. What I do is connect to the navigation-requested signal of the webview, and do this:...

make a call from my iphone application

I have implemented the ability to make a call from clicking on a row of descriptive tableview of my hotel; I used the URL scheme by writing the following code in method "didSelectRowAtIndexPath ": NSString *phoneNumber=element.phone; [NSString *phoneNumberScheme = [NSString stringWithFormat:@"tel:%...

Valid characters for URI schemes?

I was thinking about Registering an Application to a URL Protocol and I'd like to know, what characters are allowed in a scheme? Some examples: h323 (has numbers) h323:[<user>@]<host>[:<port>][;<parameters>] z39.50r (has a . as well) z39.50r://<host>[:<port>]/<database>?<docid>[;esn=<elementset>][;rs=<recordsyntax>] paparazzi:ht...

Facebook Authentication - issue coming back into my iPhone app via custom url scheme

I am trying to use the new Facebook 'one-time authentication' process in my iPhone app. The idea is that the app links out to either the Facebook app or Safari to ask the user to log in to Facebook, then Facebook returns the user to the app using a custom URL scheme. I have set up the custom url scheme in the app, prepending 'fb' as in...