URL and application handling/registration standard

[Jerome Leclanche]

I don't believe that was the case.

chromium.desktop has the
same: MimeType=text/html;text/xml;application/xhtml+xml;text/mml;x-scheme-handler/http;x-scheme-handler/https;


J. Leclanche


On Sun, Oct 21, 2012 at 9:58 PM, David Faure <faure at kde.org> wrote:

> On Friday 19 October 2012 17:09:50 David Faure wrote:
> > > Better solution yet, imho: Screw being too clever.
> > >
> > >  - Have apps list protocols they support. Eg
> > >
> > > Protocols=x-scheme-handler/http;x-scheme-handler/https;
> >
> > Never ever do this, for the reasons above. HTTP is too complex to send
> all
> > http urls to a single app.
>
> Ouch, and I just found out that /usr/share/applications/firefox.desktop
> says
>
>
> MimeType=text/html;text/xml;application/xhtml+xml;application/vnd.mozilla.xul+xml;text/mml;application/x-
>
> xpinstall;x-scheme-handler/http;x-scheme-handler/https;x-scheme-handler/ftp;
>
> on OpenSUSE 12.1 at least.
> (MozillaFirefox-15.0.1-2.40.1.x86_64)
>
> Didn't we say no application should ever associate itself with x-scheme-
> handler/http?
> This is supposed to have priority over anything else, right? (i.e. over the
> standard mechanism of launching an app based on the file contents).
> That's fine for special protocols (magnet://, telnet:// etc.) but not for
> HTTP...
>
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