Re: Any way to intercept the URL-opening mechanism on OS X?
Re: Any way to intercept the URL-opening mechanism on OS X?
- Subject: Re: Any way to intercept the URL-opening mechanism on OS X?
- From: Conrad Shultz <email@hidden>
- Date: Sat, 02 Jan 2016 15:46:31 -0800
You should be able to listen, at the application level, for a beforeNavigate event and then effectively modify the URL by canceling the navigation with preventDefault() and triggering a new load using your rewritten URL.
See also https://developer.apple.com/library/safari/documentation/Extensions/Reference/SafariBeforeNavigateEventClassRef/#//apple_ref/javascript/instp/SafariBeforeNavigateEvent/url
-Conrad
> On Jan 2, 2016, at 3:07 PM, Rick Mann <email@hidden> wrote:
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> That was my first attempt, and it provides no way to modify the main url.
>
> Sent from my iPhone
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> On Jan 2, 2016, at 15:04, Conrad Shultz <email@hidden <mailto:email@hidden>> wrote:
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>>> On Dec 22, 2015, at 3:51 PM, Rick Mann <email@hidden <mailto:email@hidden>> wrote:
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>>> You know how you can click links in email, and heck, to open them in Safari (or whatever browser)? Is there any way to write an extension of some sort that can intercept this and re-write the URL? I tried to write a filter in Safari proper for the URL that the user pastes into the address bar, but Safari plug-ins don't have access to that.
>>>
>>> I want to write a thing to strip all the utm_* parameters off the URLs.
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>> Rather than a plug-in, would a Safari extension do what you need? You might take look at https://developer.apple.com/library/safari/documentation/Tools/Conceptual/SafariExtensionGuide/WorkingwithWindowsandTabs/WorkingwithWindowsandTabs.html <https://developer.apple.com/library/safari/documentation/Tools/Conceptual/SafariExtensionGuide/WorkingwithWindowsandTabs/WorkingwithWindowsandTabs.html>
>>
>> -Conrad
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