[c-nsp] ssh in ie

[Bruce Pinsky]

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Brian McMahon wrote:
> 
> On Jun 6, 2006, at 13:35, Bruce Pinsky wrote:
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>> What version of Firefox supports this?  My quick test resulting in
>> message
>> complaining that the protocol wasn't associated with any program.
> 
> With FF 1.5.0.4 on OS X 10.4, it "just works".
> 
> Actually, it pops up a box that says "yo, this link is going to launch
> external application "Terminal", and did you really mean to do that?"
> ... paraphrasing, of course ... but that counts as "working".
> 
> It's possible (though slightly strange) that Firefox Windows is
> different this way.  And I don't see any knob to control protocol
> associations.  Now I'm curious.  I'll be in the office with a dual-boot
> Windows/SUSE box tomorrow ... I'll tinker around some more.
> 

Ah, Firefox on OSX.  I am running on Windows.

I did however find out how to make this work.  You must register the
protocol in both Firefox and with Windows.  Here are links for doing that:

http://blog.ryaneby.com/archives/firefox-protocol-handlers/
http://msdn.microsoft.com/workshop/networking/pluggable/overview/appendix_a.asp

Works like a champ.

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