Is it possible for a web-app to detect if a protocol (URI-scheme) is registered on the client machine? For example “spotify:” or “skype:”.
Tried opening a URL in a hidden iframe – didn’t work…
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Is it possible for a web-app to detect if a protocol (URI-scheme) is registered on the client machine? For example “spotify:” or “skype:”.
Tried opening a URL in a hidden iframe – didn’t work…
I would think that it is not.
This would require a browser to be made indirectly aware of what applications the user has installed on their software, which is an unnecessary transparency and by virtue of that: a security risk.