gHacks Technology News | Latest Tech News, Software And Tutorials » protocols http://www.ghacks.net A technology news blog covering software, mobile phones, gadgets, security, the Internet and other relevant areas. Sat, 11 Feb 2012 09:52:46 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 View All Registered URL Protocolshttp://www.ghacks.net/2008/06/24/view-all-registered-url-protocols/ http://www.ghacks.net/2008/06/24/view-all-registered-url-protocols/#comments Tue, 24 Jun 2008 11:57:44 +0000 Martin Brinkmann http://www.ghacks.net/?p=5099 You might have heard of URLs before when someone referred to an Internet address as an URL. URL Protocols are for example http, mailto or ftp and they have to be registered on the system to be of any use. Each URL protocol is registered to a specific application that handles that type, the mailto protocol would for example be handled by the default mail program.

URL Protocol View displays all registered URL protocols on the system, along with a description and the path to the application that handles it. It also lists if the protocol is currently enabled on the host system.

The Nirsoft application provides an option to disable specific protocols on the system which can be useful to secure the system further. Does not make much sense to leave protocols enabled that are never used.

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The software is portable as usual and can create a html report of the registered protocols and is compatible to all Microsoft operating systems from Windows 98 to Windows Vista. The website lists a strange Windows bug (which I have no tried myself). If you disable the mailto plugin and click on a mailto link afterward Windows will display an error message and spawn Internet Explorer windows until the system runs out of resources to spawn additional ones. Sounds like lots of fun.

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