Safelist mapping, version control, and digital object identifier URL schemes for "registerProtocolHandler"

Feature: Safelist mapping, version control, and digital object identifier URL schemes for "registerProtocolHandler" (No longer pursuing)

Extend list of URL schemes that can be overridden via registerProtocolHandler() to include bzr, bzr+ftp, bzr+lp, bzr+http, bzr+https, bzr+sftp, bzr+ssh, cvs, cvs+ext, cvs+pserver, cvs+ssh, darcs+http, darcs+https, darcs+ssh, git, git+http, git+https, git+ssh, hg, hg+http, hg+https, hg+ssh, hg+static-http, lp, svn, svn+http, svn+https, svn+ssh, map, gmap, bingmap, location, doi

Documentation

Also: https://github.com/whatwg/html/issues/2546 and https://github.com/whatwg/html/pull/3080 for mapping and DOI respectively.

Specification

Specification link

Status: Specification being incubated in a Community Group

Status in Chromium

Blink components: Blink>HTML>CustomHandlers

Implementation status: No longer pursuing (tracking bug)

Consensus & Standardization

After a feature ships in Chrome, the values listed here are not guaranteed to be up to date.

Firefox: No signal
Safari: No signal
Web Developers: Positive

Owner

asanka@chromium.org

Comments

Note that "registerProtocolHandler" is not currently supported on Safari and Edge. Discussion stalled on the question of whether registerProtocolHandler should use a allowlist or a blocklist.

Last updated on 2021-10-25