Re: Safari and Helper Applications
Re: Safari and Helper Applications
- Subject: Re: Safari and Helper Applications
- From: Larry Gerndt <email@hidden>
- Date: Wed, 18 Jun 2003 22:29:51 -0700
On 6/18/03 10:26 PM, Chris Silverberg wrote:
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on 6/18/03 9:19 PM, Larry Gerndt at email@hidden wrote:
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> Has anyone found a way to make Safari launch a custom helper application
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> (other than the standard QuickTime, Stuffit, etc)? What it's supposed to do
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> (but doesn't), is look at Internet Config, where applications are bound to
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> MIME types, or at least look at the LaunchServices database, which it also
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> doesn't.
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I don't believe it looks at InternetConfig, but it *should* look at
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LaunchServices. However, it's unknown exactly what Safari decides to open.
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As the preference says, "Open 'safe' files after downloading - 'Safe' files
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include movies, pictures, sounds, PDF and text documents, and disk images
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and other archives." That seems a bit ambiguous to me.
Yes, it seems to me that Safari will ONLY open "safe" files and nothing
else.
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> In case it helps, here are the details of the problem: When the user clicks
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> on one of our "meeting" links in a browser, the browser downloads a document
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> whose extension is .ptk and whose MIME type is "text/ptk" (our custom MIME
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> type). In Internet Config, we've associated this MIME type and extension
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> with our application.
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Did you also add your MIME type to your Info.plist file? It's just a guess,
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but Safari may require a MIME type to be registered in your Info.plist
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before it will launch your helper. From the 10.2 technote:
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"MIME info can now appear in application plists along side
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CFBundleTypeExtensions and CFBundleTypeOSTypes to identify files an
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application is capable of displaying or editing by MIME type. The MIME key
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is CFBundleTypeMIMETypes."
Yes, I've had that key in there for awhile now. No go.
--
Larry Gerndt
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Let the truth be told though the heavens fall -- James Garrison
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