custom-protocol – Tarik Billa

Valid characters for URI schemes?

December 3, 2023 by Tarik

According to RFC 2396, Appendix A: scheme = alpha *( alpha | digit | “+” | “-” | “.” ) Meaning: The scheme should start with a letter (upper or lower case), and can contains letters (still upper and lower case), number, “+”, “-” and “.”. Note: in the case of paparazzi:http:[//<host>[:[<port>][<transport>]]/ the scheme is … Read more

Custom protocol handler in chrome

January 8, 2023 by Tarik

The following method registers an application to a URI Scheme. So, you can use mycustproto: in your HTML code to trigger a local application. It works on a Google Chrome Version 51.0.2704.79 m (64-bit). I mainly used this method for printing document silently without the print dialog popping up. The result is pretty good and … Read more