Will my favorite Internet app take advantage of the new URL scheme?
Well-behaved Macintosh applications handle URL-related actions through InternetConfig. These applications will transparently use the new URL scheme, provided that you tell InternetConfig that the helper for the fab scheme is QuickestMirror itself. To do this,
1) select Edit Internet Config Preferences from the File menu in QuickestMirror; this should open the IC application
2) open the Helpers window
3) add QuickestMirror as a helper application for the fab scheme
4) Save the changes
There are notable exceptions, of course, such as Netscape Navigator; the popular browser requires an AppleScript kludge like this:
tell application "Netscape Navigator™"
register protocol "QMir" for protocol "fab"
end tell
This instructs Netscape to let QuickestMirror handle fab URLs. In theory you should run this script only once, but I have learned that Netscape Navigator, versions 3.0 through 3.0.2 (versions 2.x and 4.x should work fine), sometimes cannot retain what protocols have been registered. Technically speaking, the code to create the STR# (ID = 2003) resource of the Netscape Preferences file if the resource does not previously exist had been removed by mistake.
For some reason, Eudora does not auto-highlight fab URLs with no angle brackets <> around them. This is current as of Eudora Light 3.1.1. Also, please note that Eudora supports InternetConfig in a strange way, so you may need to double-click a fab URL holding down the option key in order to use QuickestMirror as a helper for fab URLs.
