Re: MIME & helper apps
Re: MIME & helper apps
- Subject: Re: MIME & helper apps
- From: Larry Gerndt <email@hidden>
- Date: Tue, 16 Dec 2003 11:26:47 -0800
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Message: 1
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Date: Mon, 15 Dec 2003 19:45:32 -0500
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To: email@hidden
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From: Matt Mashyna <email@hidden>
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Subject: MIME & helper apps
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I need to register a custom mime type with browsers on OS X to use my
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Carbon helper app to post process files. I can manually do it for
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NetScape 7.1 and it works. I can also do it manually for Internet
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Explorer 5 but it doesn't launch the helper app after it downloads
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the file. I haven't been able to find out how to tell Safari to use
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my helper app. I can't seem to find anything on the developer site
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about setting up helper apps. I can't be looking in the right places.
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Can someone please point me in the right direction ? Especially for
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safari.
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I would really like to write a little installer that would tell all
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three apps about my helper. I have some code that works for OS 9 but
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not for OS X.
I'm afraid you've hit a snag. The only way I know of currently, to make
Safari open your document (of custom MIME type) with your application is to
build and install a Netscape-style browser Plug-in which declares itself as
a handler for your MIME type. Safari will then pass the file to your
Plug-in, and your Plug-in can open your application with that document.
I've already submitted a bug to Apple about this, because it should not be
this hard to make Safari open a document with a helper application.
P.S. Safari also ignores internet config, which is the traditional place to
make document-helper associations, so don't bother trying that either.
--
Larry Gerndt
AIM Handle: SonOfTheSonOfMan
Let the truth be told though the heavens fall -- James Garrison
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