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sylvainrodrigue
Brass Contributor
Apr 10, 2019

How the new Edge will handle file:// URI ?

file: links seems to be ignored in this version of Edge (like they are in Chrome). In the previous version of Edge however (and all IE versions), clicking on a file: link opens the original document....
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sylvainrodrigue
Brass Contributor
Apr 20, 2020

JeffOwens +1 ! This is what we have done finally. We just had to implement a new URI Scheme handler to mimic what we had in IE11. It works with all modern browsers. 

 

If anybody want directions, please tell me. (Note: I'm the guy who posted the initial subject - I'm working for another company now).

 

Best regards JeffOwens.

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rakova17
Copper Contributor
May 04, 2020

sylvainrodrigue Would you be able to share the instructions? Thanks!

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    aspeagle69
    Copper Contributor
    Sep 30, 2021
    Thank you! This was the perfect answer for most of our documents. I still haven't found a way to display the pdf docs though. I may just have those uploaded since they are view-only. Thanks again!
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    narutards
    Iron Contributor
    May 05, 2020

    Since noone has answered any of the requests for the alternative protocols yet, let me dig up something I wrote back in 2016 as a POC at work:

     

     

    Windows Registry Editor Version 5.00

[HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\rdp]
@="URL:RDP Protocol"
"URL Protocol"=""

[HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\rdp\shell]

[HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\rdp\shell\open]

[HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\rdp\shell\open\command]
@="C:\\Windows\\System32\\WindowsPowerShell\\v1.0\\powershell.exe -Command \"$val='%1'; $val = $val.TrimStart('rdp://').TrimEnd('/'); & 'C:\\Windows\\system32\\mstsc.exe' /v:\"$val\"\""

     

    Save this is a .reg file and execute it.

     

    <html>
<body>
<a href="rdp://PC012345">RDP</a>
</body>
</html>

     

    And this as a .html file somewhere.

     

    Clicking the rdp:// link should now open mstsc.exe with the host "PC012345" pre-selected.

     

    The powershell bit is "needed" (afaik) because %1 contains the entire link with an additional trailing slash, so "rdp://PC012345/".

     

    I'm sure you guys can figure out the rest and how to apply this for other programs.

  • rakova17's avatar
    rakova17
    Copper Contributor
    May 05, 2020
    Thanks, that's pretty interesting. Our problem though is that most of our links are in places that won't support a link prefix like that (SharePoint, for example).
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    jpochedley
    Brass Contributor
    May 04, 2020

    I know it may not be what 100% of people want / need, but this helped us since most of the items we were linking to were Office docs (not file folders, etc)...

     

    Check out the Office URI scheme, as documented here:  

    https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/office/client-developer/office-uri-schemes

     

    When using the Office URI, the file open method uses the Office protocol handlers which support the file:// URI ....  so, a HREF on a web page can point to  ms-word:ofv|u|file://<server_path_to_doc> and Word will open the file directly from a non-http path...

     

    HTH

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