On Sun, 2012-10-21 at 22:58 +0200, David Faure 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?
That's not what we said. We said that no non-browser applications should do that. > 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... Why not? Sniffing HTTP URLs is completely broken. It breaks one-time URLs. _______________________________________________ xdg mailing list xdg@lists.freedesktop.org http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/xdg