Creating Custom Protocol (Windows 7)

Question

I\'ve been trying to create a custom protocol (open_php_file://) to open local files through the browser. I\'ve created the following registery-keys:

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Answer 1

Windows always replaces %1 with the full URI that was entered. AFAIK there is no way to change that behavior.

This leaves you two options:

1. If you've written the program being called yourself, you can filter the URI when it is being invoked.
2. You could use an intermediate program that acts as a filter for the URI and then forwards the result to the actual protocol implementation. Fortunately for you, someone has already done exactly that. See 'CustomURL' on CodePlex. CustomURL is a small utility for registering custom URL protocols. For example you can associate the rdp:// protocol with Remote Desktop Client or the ssh:// protocol with Putty or another SSH client.