Assigning protocol to program?

[zoidberg]

Is there a way to assign a link type to open a specific program?

For example, as standard, when you click on anything beginning http:// it opens IE (or your default browser) and when you click on anything beginning mailto:// it opens your default mail program.

I want to have a link of type sip:// that when clicked on, opens my VoIP client program. Anyone know how?

Cheers.

[pdV6]

There is a way to do this but I'm buggered if I can remember how!

Sorry about that

[TheExcession]

It'll be in the Windows Registry somewhere, try searching for 'mailto:' and see what it throws up.

There is some stuff in HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT to do with this stuff. But in the registry stuff that is mapping CLASSES is oftten very convoluted.

Google will probably help.

[Plotloss]

You need to setup a MIME type as I remember.

[_deejay_]

In Explorer, just select tools -> folder options -> file types then add the one you want.

[pdV6]

_deejay_ said:

In Explorer, just select tools -> folder options -> file types then add the one you want.

...said the one who didn't read the question properly

[GreenV8S]

zoidberg said:

I want to have a link of type sip:// that when clicked on, opens my VoIP client program. Anyone know how?

If you're the one writing the page, you could script it? Doesn't solve the general problem though.

I'm not completely certain, but I think the protocol associations will be provided by the browser, and the underlying OS only provides the file suffix associations. As a slight wrinkle, IE seems to honour the file suffix associations too, even if you explicitly use IE to open a document it will delegate it to another application based on the ftype association.

[_deejay_]

pdV6 said:

_deejay_ said:

In Explorer, just select tools -> folder options -> file types then add the one you want.

...said the one who didn't read the question properly

Erm, that'll be me then. It'll teach me to half read a topic.

How about this instead? I've not tried it, but it's worth looking at: http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/def

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[zoidberg]

Thanks chaps, will try that MS registry hack

Edited by zoidberg on Tuesday 12th September 10:31