On Thu, 30 Aug 2001 15:47:17 -0400, Gaetan Guttermann wrote:
> Hi
>
> we'd like to embed gecko in a java application which will contain a
> basic browser.
> We may call this browser with an URI such as LID://myFolder/myFile.html,
> based on a
> customized protocol. Html files to be displayed are stored in memory in
> a customized
> file system. We already have some java classes which
> build JavaByteStreams to memory in order to reach those files...
>
> We'd like to know the global mecanism of protocol handling in gecko,
> What classes
> to add and where, inheritance... in order to implement our own protocol.
>
> We would appreciate any piece of information.
>
Gratuitous plug that it may be, check out galeon
http://galeon.sourceforge.net
We've implemented a number of custom protocol handlers to display
gnome help docs and info and man pages.
It should illustrate all the important things.
--phil
