Re: Setting default application for URL scheme

FROM : Nick Zitzmann
DATE : Wed May 14 22:06:00 2008

On May 14, 2008, at 1:16 PM, Matthew Gertner wrote:

> I'd like to set the application that should be run when a URL with a
> given scheme is opened. The only way I've found to do this is
> _LSSetDefaultSchemeHandlerURL, but I'd rather not go with an
> undocumented API if it can be avoided. Is there a Cocoa API or
> something for this that I haven't been able to find? Or would I be
> better off using the Cocoa APIs to modify the launch services database
> directly?



There is no Cocoa API. The only supported way of doing this is to use 
LSSetDefaultHandlerForURLScheme(), which requires Tiger or later. 
Prior to Tiger, you had to use Internet Config to do that.

Nick Zitzmann
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