How can I add a custom url handler on Windows. Like iTunes itms://

Jan Bannister picture Jan Bannister · Apr 28, 2009 · Viewed 21.9k times · Source

I would like telnet://blah to open putty and not the native windows telnet client.

I don't even know what this 'feature' is called under windows so I'm having no luck find any information about it.

Thanks in advance, Jan

Answer

Richard Szalay picture Richard Szalay · Apr 28, 2009

If it's simple, you can do it via the command line:

ftype telnet # view current binding
ftype telnet=\path\to\putty.exe %1

Otherwise you'll need to use the registry as previously posted.