[SOLVED] Have firefox exec a shell script when a quake2:// is clicked?

fogpipe · 12-01-2014, 06:22 PM

The title pretty much says it all. I would like to have firefox launch a quake2 multiplayer shell script when a quake2://xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx:xxxx url is clicked

thanks

michaelk · 12-02-2014, 05:57 AM

You need to configure firefox to run your script for your protocol/scheme. I've never tried but this should work.

http://kb.mozillazine.org/Register_protocol

fogpipe · 12-02-2014, 04:24 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by michaelk

You need to configure firefox to run your script for your protocol/scheme. I've never tried but this should work.

http://kb.mozillazine.org/Register_protocol

Hey thanks

this

Quote:

network.protocol-handler.expose.foo -> Value -> false (Replace foo with the protocol you're specifying)

along with a bit of perl

Code:

#!/usr/bin/perl
$ARGV[0] =~ s/quake2:\/\///;
print $ARGV[0];
`xterm -e "cd /usr/share/quake2&&/usr/share/quake2/quake2 +connect $ARGV[0]"`;
exit;

did the trick nicely.

You know, this is what i love about linux. On windows i would have had to download and futz around with some sort of server browser or something and clicked through a bunch of ads and cruft to get it.

Now i just click a server url and play

Thanks again.

I looked everywhere for something like that. Guess my google skills are not what they might be.

michaelk · 12-02-2014, 05:41 PM

Great that it worked. You can mark the thread as solved via the thread tools at the top of the page.