On May 21, 2011, at 1:14 PM, Guyren Howe wrote:

> in a web browser, my ruby app intercepts that call, receives the URL and 
> handles it.


You're intent is still not entirely clear. I think you're trying to figure out 
how to register a web-based protocol handler with your operating system?

For example.. In OS X, "/usr/bin/open mailto:[email protected]"; launches my 
default mail client. In OS X this is handled with LSRegisterURL(). For Windows 
look here.

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