James E. LaBarre wrote:
> We have a webpage on our wiki at work that lists the various Linux & 
> Windows servers we need to connect to .  The URLs have custom protocol 
> labels for the machine names depending on the OS on the server 
> (ssh://server.name for Linux machines, rdp://server.name for Windows). 
> On Windows clients these work (there's a registry hack for RDP to work 
> from web pages), and it would **seem** it should work on Linux.  But 
> have not gotten it to work at all; at most I can get a "ssh://.." link 

The part of a URI before the colon is called the "scheme."  Ultimately, it's
up to the browser which schemes are implemented.  The complete list of
official schemes defined by IANA is here:
http://www.iana.org/assignments/uri-schemes.html

Note that there is no rdp scheme, there is a 'provisional' ssh scheme (I'm not
sure what that means).  Some people have reported getting the ssh scheme to
work on firefox with a config change.  But AFAIK, there's no official support
for it in Linux.  It might be implemented in some of the desktops, but once
again, it's up to the browsers to interface with those desktops.

If you want to navigate these links from your own Linux system, I suggest
something along the lines of creating a small script that knows what do with
those kinds of urls and then copy/pasting those urls to the script.

If you're trying to support a linux option at your workplace, I suggest you
figure out how to do it on firefox and then make that the officially supported
browser so you can push that config out to everyone.

> to open up gnome-terminal, but it doesn't pass through the destination 
> server.  Tried it in Opera as well, no luck there either.
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