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Remy Lebeau (TeamB) wrote:
> "danzer" <.> wrote in message news:45ef2fdb@newsgroups.borland.com...
> 
>> Does windows (specifically Windows XP) use a registry key
>> value to execute the following command from a program?
> 
> Yes.  It has to look up the program that is registered to handle the
> HTTP protocol.
> 
>> If yes, what is the name of this key?
> 
> It is not a single key, but several keys working together.  The Shell
> recognizes that the specified filename begins with a URL protocol, so
> it first opens the following key:
> 
>     HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\<protocol> (in this case, <protocol> is "http")
> 
> It checks if the key has a "URL Protocol" value present.  If present,
> it then checks if the following key exists:
> 
>     HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\<protocol>\shell\<verb> (in this case, <verb> is
> "open")
> 
> If it does, then the Shell executes the program specified in the
> "command" subkey, or connects to the server specified in the "ddeexec'
> subkey.
> 
> Refer to the following article for more details:
> 
>     Registering an Application to a URL Protocol
> 
> http://msdn.microsoft.com/workshop/networking/pluggable/overview/appendix_a.asp
> 
> 
> Gambit
> 
> 

I use SeaMonkey as my default browser and when I upgraded from version 
1.1 to 1.1.1 the ShellExecute command show above returned 
SE_ERR_NOASSOC.  Evidently the upgrade trashed the associations in the 
registry.  I guess I will rebuild them from another machine that has 
SeaMonkey installed as the default browser unless you can suggest an 
easier way.

Danzer