Browser highlight support for my very own protocol handler

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I'm using a class to register my protocol, lets say lorem: to operating system. Its working perfect but I would like to do couple of things.

I want to create something like Skype Click to Call. People will share uri's like lorem://12345678 and when others click this the event handler will redirect that request to my windows application. I want to make this uri clickable. How can identify this new scheme to browsers so when a page contains lorem://12345678, browser will transform it something like
<a href="lorem://12345678">lorem://12345678</a> and users be able to click it.

Can I do it with browser configuration or should I write some kind of extension to implement this rule. It must support all browsers so is that means I need to write same extension for Chrome, Firefox and IE? And how can I install all extensions with my software setup?

Straight to point question: I want to transform lorem://ipsum text to <a href="lorem://ipsum">My URL!</a> on most popular browsers

score 1 · Answer 1 · edited May 23 '17 at 10:09

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as i understood -- you need to write extensions for each browser, check out this question: how do I create my own URL protocol? (e.g. so://...)

and this is an example of browser approach: Custom protocol handler in chrome

edited May 23 '17 at 10:09

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answered Mar 02 '15 at 14:52

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Thank you for your answer! When I write lorem://test it works already. I also want to allow people to click lorem://test on their browsers. I found http://goo.gl/k6R8o8 but its about html5 and it requires tag to work. Since I already registered that protocol on system level, its not what I actually want. I've updated question to make it clear. – Batuhan Mar 02 '15 at 15:06

Browser highlight support for my very own protocol handler

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