wine's iexplore: application protocols ?

[Fred2]

I have a question, some applications register their own "custom protocols", instead of http: it can be for example skype: or skp: .

Google SketchUp for example uses skp: to communicate between javascript in webdialogs and its Ruby scripting language. At the moment, I have installed Microsoft's IE8 (otherwise I haven't got it to work). For various reasons I would prefer Wine's own browser with Winegecko instead of IE8.

So the question is: Is support for custom protocols not yet implemented in Wine's iexplore, or do custom protocols work in some applications (so that there is maybe only a solvable SketchUp-specific problem)?

[Fred2]

Do custom protocols work in any Wine applications?

[DanKegel]

I think I saw them mentioned recently in wine-devel.
It's probably on the horizon, but not yet implemented.

[vichu11]

I too had been wondering how certain applications manage to register custom protocols that indeed belong to them as when compared to the usual http we all know. Now correct me if I am wrong but it seems to me that Custom protocols do work in any kind of Wine applications.

[Martin Gregorie]

On Mon, 2011-12-12 at 22:20 -0600, vichu11 wrote:

I too had been wondering how certain applications manage to register
custom protocols that indeed belong to them as when compared to the
usual http we all know. Now correct me if I am wrong but it seems to
me that Custom protocols do work in any kind of Wine applications.

It depends on how the protocol is implemented: if the code implementing
it runs in user space, e.g. its compiled into the EXE or is part of a
library module (DLL), then it should work with Wine, but if its been
implemented as a device driver then you're out of luck because you can't
install Windows drivers in Linux or OS X.


Martin