FRIGN said: > mailcap files come pretty close, but only offer detection by mime (you > couldn't for instance parse youtube-links if you wanted or > differentiate between a file:// and http://-URL).
You can. Use "text/html" mime type and a script to parse URLs. (You'll need to parse URLs anyway, if you want to do anything useful with them.) > Additionally, with mailcap you can only provide one command, whereas > soap offers you to give a whole set of commands, including piping and > other stuff. You could do that with mailcap, too, by writing a > shell-script for each handler. Arbitrary shell commands work in mailcap. > Now, most importantly, what you have to consider is that mailcap isn't > called by X-programs, which soap is directed at (-> replacing xdg-open). I must have worded it clearer: I suggested using mailcap as configuration format for soap. Or at least extend it to support whatever you want to support. -- Dmitrij D. Czarkoff
