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Questions tagged [custom-url]

A custom url is a url that deviates from whatever is the default url

Many web frameworks and other web related tools mandate a certain default way of generating urls. If this kind of url does not fit your needs, you are looking of a custom url.

Questions inquiring how to create certain kind of custom-urls with a given framework, or about the effects of using such urls should be tagged with custom-url

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Launching app OR app store from Safari?

I already know how to launch an app from safari, but is it possible to check if the app is installed before launching? I'm thinking to launch the app store if the app isn't currently installed on the iPhone.
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Custom URL Scheme maximum URL length

As per title, what is the maximum length a URL can be, when using a custom URL scheme with an app? e.g. If I'm launching another app via URL, and passing a blob of data using something like    myappscheme://some/path?data=0123456789ABCDEF how long…
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Support for other protocols in Android webview

I've created a web view app, the page that is displayed features market:// links but upon clicking them I get the 404 screen along with the error that the protocol is not supported. I've tried looking through documentation but was unable to find…
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Codeigniter subdomain routing

I'm trying to setup a blog script on a website running on the CodeIgniter framework. I want do this without making any major code changes to my existing website's code. I figured that creating a sub domain pointing to another Controller would be the…
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Custom URL to launch Facebook Messenger on iOS

How can I launch FaceBook Messenger (if installed) with a compose Windows to a specific FB ID. If messenger is not installed, can we launch FaceBook app and have the compose Windows open to a specific FB ID. In the rare instance if no Facebook apps…
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Can you open an iOS app from an HTTP url scheme?

I would like to open my iOS application similar to how it can be done on Android, that is by using a specific web address instead of a custom URL protocol. This is how it works on Android. The Reddit is Fun app is a great example of this: User is…
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How can I extract the Custom URL Scheme from a .ipa file?

I am trying to determine how to extract or get programmatically the Custom URL Scheme from a application .ipa file. Is this possible?
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Launch custom app with URL by domain

Even though the YouTube app is now not a built-in app by Apple, it looks like when tapping a youtube link (in mail, for example), which starts with http://www.youtube.com, opens the YouTube app right away. Is there a way to this for custom apps in…
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WKWebView not opening custom URL scheme (js opens custom scheme link in new window)

I have a WKWebView in my application. I don't use UIWebView, because for some strange reason it doesn't open properly a web page with a lot of JS code in it. When I tap on the link with custom url scheme "scm://", it does nothing... My code: -…
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Launch the app with Options or With Custom URL scheme after installing from iTunes

Is it possible to navigate user to specific screen of our app when he/she installs the app from a link to iTunes Store. let's suppose i shared a link of our app to some friend via email, if the app is already installed on his/her device then our app…
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Custom URL scheme does not work sometimes in iPhone

I have an application where I have to get a message from server. The server sends the message in an SMS. Since iPhone applications cannot receive SMS programatically I have registered a Custom URL scheme and prefixing my message with the custom URL…
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Django redirect to custom URL

From my Django app, how to I redirect a user to somescheme://someurl.com? To give you some context in case it helps, I have a working oauth2 server written in Python/Django and I need to allow users to register redirect_uris that have a custom URL…
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How can I launch back the app that opened my custom URL scheme?

I'm working on an app that manages my own URL scheme so I implement the callback: - (BOOL)application:(UIApplication *)application didFinishLaunchingWithOptions (NSDictionary *)launchOptions { // Get our launch URL if (launchOptions != nil) …
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Launch Apple's Stocks app, with a particular stock selected

I would like to launch Apple's Stocks app to show information for a particular stock, on a non-jailbroken phone. I'm not interesting in how to get a quote or graph a stock myself, just opening Stocks.app. I was hoping that the Stocks app would have…
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Has there been a change to the way Mac OSX Mavericks handles CFBundleURLName "Custom url" launches for applications?

I created an app which is launched from a custom url in any OSX browser. This worked just fine by adding a standard CFBundleURLName entry to the app's plist. My application works by reading by parsing some of the parameters on the custom url and…
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