Custom URI protocol designed to open explorer

Question

We have an application designed for google chrome where we need to add a link to the network file share. Unfortunately, Chrome denies the file:// protocol for security purposes. We want to set up a custom protocol to allow this functionality.

I thought a good way to do this would be to call explorer. Here are the registry keys we added:

[HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\MyApp\DefaultIcon]
@="\"C:\\Windows\\explorer.exe\""

[HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\MyApp\shell]

[HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\MyApp\shell\open]

[HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\MyApp\shell\open\command]
@="\" C:\\Windows\\explorer.exe\" \"%1\""

Currently, we get an error that states the protocol isn't valid. Could anyone assist in correcting this?

Thank you all very much in advance.

Answer 1

@ Wolfram Schmied,

I just wrote a workaround on yours, using CMD:

REGEDIT4

[HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\IntranetFileLauncher]
@="URL:IntranetFileLauncher Protocol"
"URL Protocol"=""

[HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\IntranetFileLauncher\DefaultIcon]
@="\"C:\\Windows\\explorer.exe\""

[HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\IntranetFileLauncher\shell]

[HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\IntranetFileLauncher\shell\open]

[HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\IntranetFileLauncher\shell\open\command]
@="cmd /c set url=\"%1\" & call set url=%%url:intranetfilelauncher:=%% & call start explorer file:%%url%%"

The code above basically does the same as yours, except on the last line it uses cmd.exe to open a file/folder a command. In pseudo code: open commandpromt, pass given filepath as variable 'url', alter variable 'url' by stripping the protocol identifier and finally open explorer with the stripped filepath

I hope this helpes.