The old Microsoft Edge had a big security hole where you could just open an app from a website using the protocols. If you use some clever JavaScript to make a loop of it, you can't stop that until you power cycle your device.
@@ajddavid452 But it isn't with he Mailto:// and the user would have to run the javascript for it to send an email, so you cant just send emails using an URL
12:50 In the olden days some sysadmins used to create protocols to open terminal apps so you could have webpages that displayed info about servers and then have a link to open a terminal to that server.
Hey! I did that and just a couple of years ago. Didn't know it's a thing anyone else have done though. (not to actual servers but very similar things. maybe i'll do servers too if I have time) Yes you can open Putty or similar, but you may need a URI decoder and parser program just as the video said
There're also a number of protocols and URI Schemas that can be used on iOS to launch apps in different states, like different pages of the Settings app, and if I'm not mistaken, SpringBoard (the home screen). These can be used from a shortcut within the Shortcuts app (by Apple), which allows you to make some rather nifty shortcuts (not to mention that shortcuts can execute commands on remote machines via SSH, which is a completely different, but very interesting, topic).
The problem though, is that most of the apps seems to be not that well documented, probably to avoid people finding a way to skip launch ad or something... But still there's little documentation even for official Apple apps, and that gets in the way way to often I just don't find shortcut that useful.
@@MZZenyl well... Since I'm a Windows user and my PC is really funky (mobile chipset on a desktop motherboard) I'm out of luck, as my PC doesn't meet the requirement of Windows 11. But otherwise, that'd be really creative.
@@FlameRat_YehLon I'm also a Windows user, and none of my computers meet the requirements for Win11 (both in terms of the CPUs being too old, and a lack of TPM). As for launching applications on my PC from my iPhone, that'll work for all computers, be it Windows, macOS, or Linux. It works via SSH, and you can easily set up an SSH service on a Windows machine.
ok let me explain file:/// is pc file protocol. it always run like a directory tree Even if there is : afterwards, it will see it as a part of name and not protocol.
Oh I see they had that printed in the book as a citation. Which is useless as you don't have access to their D drive ahahah Got you now. I actually saw an advert in a printed magazine that said "CLICK HERE" I wonder how many people tapped the paper
Your videos are so soothing and relaxing. I know most of this info already (I'm a huge nerd), but I still watch all your videos! You also word things very well, explain in-depth, and it's actually very helpful and interesting.
6:28 I think it's worth just to add on to this (if not just because it's an interesting fact to know): There's actually nothing special about what we call "email addresses" that set them apart from normal URLs. The part before the "@" specifies what the username is, and you can add that to basically any url and the server will use that as your username. It's also possible to send both a username AND password, but these are not supported by most modern websites for obvious reasons. back on topic: The only thing that makes an email an email is the "mailto" scheme at the beginning which tells the client to use the address for sending and receiving emails. Almost all email clients like Gmail and Outlook will implicitly assume it's there the same way web browsers will assume urls have the http prefix when entered there.
@@henke37 Simply put, it's not secure. If you have your username and password in the url, literally anyone can see them and use the same url to log in as you.
@@vvinterwulf Anyone who can see the url. It could be your mom looking at your browser history, or NordVPN with your traffic logs. Physical access isn't really a factor if all you need is a cursory glance and you have both the credentials and the location to use them in one place.
Very freaking awesome! Had no idea about registry keys for protocols. That explains where that association between a protocol and the program is captured. Thio forever!!!
Not all URI schemes go through the registry, either; they can be in the browser's own settings, too. Firefox has always had this ability in its Applications settings, to set what to do with specific kinds of files or URL protocols: either open it with a specific program, save the file to disk, or ask the user what to do in a pop-up. And since I run Firefox on Linux, I don't really have a Windows Registry for this to be stored in. (Though Linux has its own ways of setting/storing "environment variables". And Wine has its own Windows-like registry, used by Windows programs running in Wine.)
URL used to stand for "Universal Resource Locator", rather than "Uniform Resource Locator" - I wonder if that is just an American thing or it was changed since back when did my Masters in Computing in England.
They have always been Uniform Resource Locator, as described by RFC 1738. However, URI were called "Universal Resource Identifier" as decribed in RFC 1630. But, in a 1992 paper by the ITEF, they were being refered to "Uniform Resource Identifers". So i guess both names are correct, but Uniform has became the popular term over time.
Uniform Resource Locator suggests that the computer is trying to find some materials required to manufacture a uniform of some kind and mass produce said uniform for everyone on earth lol
@@SuperPickle15 "An early (1993) draft of the HTML Specification referred to "Universal" Resource Locators. This was dropped some time between June 1994 (RFC 1630) and October 1994 (draft-ietf-uri-url-08.txt)."
"chrome:" is not just used for google chrome (and chromium). It is also used in Firefox, but for a slightly different purpose. In firefox it refers to the chrome of the firefox window, as in: everything that isn't the website itself (think of the menu, favorites and status bar, the tabs, etc.). I don't know for sure, but I believe that plugins sometimes also use them, whenever they don't use "moz-extentions:".
i cant believe you upload still. used to watch you about 7 or 6 years ago when you made those videos like how to upgrade your ps3 to a ps4 and and how to charge your phone in 10 seconds. i believed that ps3 one and tried it but didnt work dissapointed as a kid but looking back at it. it was so funny and stupid
For a program i wrote years ago i even made my own protocol, it was some instant VPN stuff specific to route a Nintendo switch trough, i did use the protocols to be able to send server links trough discord and by clicking the program opened them and connected to them automatically
I haven't finished watching the video but thank you for putting the time and effort into making these videos, I truly appreciate it😊😃..... Okay now back to the video 👌😅
Let's not forget FTP, for downloading a file that is on an FTP server without any webpage. You don't need an ftp application to download the file, browsers van do that.
before watching this video i was legitmately joking that the magnet protocol would make your computer literally attract every peice of metal. it'd just become a gigantic magnet idk why
0:47 chrome:// does not belong to a program, it's any part of the browser chrome (i.e. everything that isn't the webpage, such as the tabbar and the settings page) some browsers may use their own for most user-facing parts (about:preferences in firefox, edge://settings), but google chrome was named after this UI concept and the scheme chrome:// is also used for user-facing parts
The steam console can be pretty useful for downloading an older version of some game file. A common use is to download an older TESV.exe file for Skyrim SE when modding with SKSE plugins.
That's pretty interesting, being able to access older versions of games sounds pretty useful. (but of course mainly for those goofy reasons that people would want to)
Meanwhile I use the Steam console to get status messages if a game doesn't load (etc), without having to launch Steam itself from a terminal window. (Though I'll do _that_ sometimes too, if a game keeps crashing or otherwise misbehaving enough.)
@@jackkraken3888 I would have thought so too. These used to be a staple and I sometimes still use ftp. But I guess for the younger audience here ftp isn't as snazzy as steam:// and would be akin to showing them a typewriter...
Dude. What about FTP? Back in the day that was the only way to transfer files and the only way to upload html files in order to build a website. Am I really so old that no one knows about FTP protocols?
You forgot a very common one. about. about:blank being the most common use, I always set my new tab page to about:blank so it won't try loading anything. Firefox uses it extensively for its settings pages, you didn't mention Firefox at all, it only showed up once accidentally in the mailto part. Not everyone uses Chrome, and nobody intentionally uses Edge.
@@TheRealMangoDev it's true. You can use the diagnostics to compare the loading speed. Edge wins most of the time and both browsers are built on Chromium.
A lot of browsers have the same kind of url like chrome. Like Brave, Edge, and Opera. So for brave it will be "brave://", edge will be "edge://”, and opera will be "opera://". Also you know the dinosaur game Easter egg. Which in Chrome it's "chrome://dino", but this easter egg does exist in other Chromium browsers (try it you will be surprised). Edit: The Chrome Easter egg works on Brave, but it doesn't seem to work on Edge anymore.
@@KSPAtlas Yep I figured it out on my own, when I tried to enable flags on the browser. I had to look up how to go to the flags menu and I saw that it's "about:config" instead of "firefox://flags”.
@Him Information coming from (Illiterate and malicious malware spreading/sharing people that malicious website is actually safe) Person. Argument ended, no point in more conversation people who viewed this can take this honest advice or be sucked into this malicious information from a malicious person. Your choice.
I imagine this would be useful for people who like to do everything through the command prompt. Or maybe you could write a program to use the browser as a commands prompt
Or... You could just run the program through the command line. For "easy access" you can copy the program to or make a lnk file in system32 and execute any program you want.
@@redcrafterlppa303 you don't need that, you just need to copy a program to your %path% and then you can use win+r and type your program name(parameters and arguments are supported) and run the program.
@@Sohlstyce I'm not sure what solution is better. The path solution bloats this global variable. There should be 1 empty folder for the user to put these programs in. Like autorun
Not sure why this video popped up on my dash, being a year old lol but it's a very interesting intro to the concept of protocols. Do you think you'll do a follow-up to explain some other protocols in greater detail to help people explore parts of the internet outside of the commercialized web that most people think of as the internet? I mean protocols like FTP and Gopher, both of which still get used sometimes, or Gemini which is a more modernized version of Gopher. Protocols like telnet, scp, and ssh are also worth covering. I think it's time for people to remember that the Internet is much more than just the web.
I use this for a game mod launcher. You can configure your mods on the web, and click a button and it will open the launcher and apply your mods to the game. More as a gimmick really, but it has the nice side effect that i can just send people a link in discord, to give many people the same mod setup.
10:20 As a librarian, I used to use a program that had z39.50 support. It was old and not a web browser, because the protocol's intended use case was searching library catalogs from specialized client software. I assume you could have wanted some way to launch that from a web link back in the day; z39.50 actually predates the web by a couple decades, so you would have slapped that on early, static web pages. Now it has a number of attempted successors and is generally unnecessary in the modern environment, so I can see why it's in the historical category. You would probably block it rather than implement it to prevent a malicious URL launching a program with insecure legacy support!
@@Idontwantahandleplease that’s not what this comment means. If you watched the video, it’s about how you could open apps with the web browser instead of the Start menu. Hence, removing the app from the Start menu so I can “hide” the app
I wonder if this supports other kinds of protocols such as FTP (file transfer protocol), SMTP (simple mail transfer protocol), SSH (secure shell), etc. If they are supported, then does that mean that a protocol can be programmed to do things other than open a website or application?
I tried to create my own protocol before the video mentioned that it was possible just to create by copying, and I managed, when I came back I heard him talk about.
Man, I was subbed to this channel.. And then TH-cam unsubbed me. Thank God for the algorithm putting this channel back under my nose since TH-cam decided to mess with my subscriptions.
From now on, I can watch almost all of your videos just bcoz of SUBTITLES. The TH-cam auto generated ones are not correct always. But thanks ThioJoe for adding SUBTITLES.
Hey man I want to move my windows from a HDD to a SSD can you make a video about it? I searched the web but there is no concise video talking about it would you mind to make one? Loved this video BTW 😅
Actually, this is how Android etc works as well. When you select a file and share it to an app, etc, that's how apps can open each other (“deep linking”)
I was curious how it works in Linux, as it has no such thing as a registry. Apparently it works via mimetipes. I only knew they are used to figure out which program to use to open a given file - the more you know
• 5:56 - Joe: "I need to show an example of a magnet link; what torrent can I use that will make me look classy? 🤔" • 6:15 - ed2k 😀 • 6:28 - mailto : Bob? subject=Hey&body=Just+saying+hi.+😀 • 6:55 - * Specific to Windows 10 (they're definitely not available in XP). - 7:32 - Windows Store. 🙄 • 10:14 - Historical, so Archie, Gopher, Wais, FINGER… • 12:25 - I remember making my own protocol a long time ago. I can't remember what it was for. 🤔
The old Microsoft Edge had a big security hole where you could just open an app from a website using the protocols. If you use some clever JavaScript to make a loop of it, you can't stop that until you power cycle your device.
Yes! I watched a video by a youtuber called flytech and he abused that.
@@AtomicNotes hey me too
@@AtomicNotes can you send me that video please? At least it's title so i can search and watch it
that would just be a troll fork bomb website lol
Perfect fork bomb
I want more of this type of content from this channel, all the nerdy details, everything.
Hm u really think it was like this from the start at the start he showed people how to *_DoWnLoAd RaM_*
@@GamingFrazix I know of the glorious days you speak of comrade but those days are behind us, we must look forward.
@David Herriot this WAS a troll channel but now he has deleted and privated all his troll videos :)
Actually, the mailto: protocol is really powerful !
Because you can actually put in the subject, and the body inside.
At least you can't send it automatically
@@bubu_hehe JavaScript: let me introduce myself
@@ajddavid452 but then it's not with the mailto.
@@ajddavid452 But it isn't with he Mailto:// and the user would have to run the javascript for it to send an email, so you cant just send emails using an URL
@@bubu_hehe Just realized it's mail-to not mal-i-toe
about:blank is my fav url
it shows a lot of fully lit pixels at a 1:1 scale
@@sebalby34 it does indeed
8:16 these protocols have been around since Windows 8, almost every UWP app has its own protocol so it can be called basically anywhere in the system.
so Minecraft uwp has an protocol
@@siggegaming1704 BRUH WTF Minecraft:// ACTUALLY WORKS!
@@GamingFrazix On macOS, it doesn't work unfortunately, but roblox:// does :)
@@GamingFrazix Minecraft://give?to=joost&item=TNT&count=999
12:50 In the olden days some sysadmins used to create protocols to open terminal apps so you could have webpages that displayed info about servers and then have a link to open a terminal to that server.
Can't you do that with SSH?
Hey! I did that and just a couple of years ago. Didn't know it's a thing anyone else have done though.
(not to actual servers but very similar things. maybe i'll do servers too if I have time)
Yes you can open Putty or similar, but you may need a URI decoder and parser program just as the video said
@@jwhite5008you can register the ssh: scheme and some apps will work with it
about:blank has to be my favorite website
lol its literally nothing
Why does that even exist i get it so much
cloak
It's also my favourite club in Berlin
I also wanted to talk about this and its the top comment.. also why are there 20 hour old comments on a 2 year old video..
There're also a number of protocols and URI Schemas that can be used on iOS to launch apps in different states, like different pages of the Settings app, and if I'm not mistaken, SpringBoard (the home screen). These can be used from a shortcut within the Shortcuts app (by Apple), which allows you to make some rather nifty shortcuts (not to mention that shortcuts can execute commands on remote machines via SSH, which is a completely different, but very interesting, topic).
The problem though, is that most of the apps seems to be not that well documented, probably to avoid people finding a way to skip launch ad or something... But still there's little documentation even for official Apple apps, and that gets in the way way to often I just don't find shortcut that useful.
@@FlameRat_YehLon I quite like shortcuts, allows me to launch applications on my PC remotely simply by executing a voice command.
@@MZZenyl well... Since I'm a Windows user and my PC is really funky (mobile chipset on a desktop motherboard) I'm out of luck, as my PC doesn't meet the requirement of Windows 11.
But otherwise, that'd be really creative.
@@FlameRat_YehLon I'm also a Windows user, and none of my computers meet the requirements for Win11 (both in terms of the CPUs being too old, and a lack of TPM).
As for launching applications on my PC from my iPhone, that'll work for all computers, be it Windows, macOS, or Linux. It works via SSH, and you can easily set up an SSH service on a Windows machine.
@@MZZenyl how do you do this? And is it secure if you use a private key and can it be done on a IOS device/ iPhone?
Ah yes magnet links. Used exclusively for downloading Linux ISOs... right?
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Definitely
absolutely
yes yes yes yes yes yes yes yes yes
for sure, yeah.
ThioJoe: *uses Steam in the example*
Also ThioJoe: *uses Spotify as the visual aid*
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In a book, I once saw a reference that said "file://D:\text.pdf"
ok let me explain
file:/// is pc file protocol. it always run like a directory tree
Even if there is : afterwards, it will see it as a part of name and not protocol.
Yes it's perfectly correct.
The URL might be correct in the sense that it is a valid URL, but it is absolutely useless if I want to use it to read the reference.
@@bernardonegri5416 Looks fine to me, the D drive root directory and the file is called text.pdf so not sure what your issue is
Oh I see they had that printed in the book as a citation. Which is useless as you don't have access to their D drive ahahah Got you now.
I actually saw an advert in a printed magazine that said "CLICK HERE" I wonder how many people tapped the paper
Your videos are so soothing and relaxing. I know most of this info already (I'm a huge nerd), but I still watch all your videos! You also word things very well, explain in-depth, and it's actually very helpful and interesting.
6:28 I think it's worth just to add on to this (if not just because it's an interesting fact to know):
There's actually nothing special about what we call "email addresses" that set them apart from normal URLs. The part before the "@" specifies what the username is, and you can add that to basically any url and the server will use that as your username.
It's also possible to send both a username AND password, but these are not supported by most modern websites for obvious reasons.
back on topic: The only thing that makes an email an email is the "mailto" scheme at the beginning which tells the client to use the address for sending and receiving emails. Almost all email clients like Gmail and Outlook will implicitly assume it's there the same way web browsers will assume urls have the http prefix when entered there.
I wouldn't call the reasons obvious.
@@henke37 Simply put, it's not secure. If you have your username and password in the url, literally anyone can see them and use the same url to log in as you.
@@Sollace anyone with physical access to the computer, right?
@@vvinterwulf Anyone who can see the url. It could be your mom looking at your browser history, or NordVPN with your traffic logs. Physical access isn't really a factor if all you need is a cursory glance and you have both the credentials and the location to use them in one place.
@@Sollace gotcha, thanks!
Very freaking awesome! Had no idea about registry keys for protocols. That explains where that association between a protocol and the program is captured.
Thio forever!!!
Not all URI schemes go through the registry, either; they can be in the browser's own settings, too. Firefox has always had this ability in its Applications settings, to set what to do with specific kinds of files or URL protocols: either open it with a specific program, save the file to disk, or ask the user what to do in a pop-up. And since I run Firefox on Linux, I don't really have a Windows Registry for this to be stored in.
(Though Linux has its own ways of setting/storing "environment variables". And Wine has its own Windows-like registry, used by Windows programs running in Wine.)
URL used to stand for "Universal Resource Locator", rather than "Uniform Resource Locator" - I wonder if that is just an American thing or it was changed since back when did my Masters in Computing in England.
Same here.
They have always been Uniform Resource Locator, as described by RFC 1738.
However, URI were called "Universal Resource Identifier" as decribed in RFC 1630. But, in a 1992 paper by the ITEF, they were being refered to "Uniform Resource Identifers". So i guess both names are correct, but Uniform has became the popular term over time.
Uniform Resource Locator suggests that the computer is trying to find some materials required to manufacture a uniform of some kind and mass produce said uniform for everyone on earth lol
I learned it as Universal in 5th grade…
@@SuperPickle15 "An early (1993) draft of the HTML Specification referred to "Universal" Resource Locators. This was dropped some time between June 1994 (RFC 1630) and October 1994 (draft-ietf-uri-url-08.txt)."
"chrome:" is not just used for google chrome (and chromium). It is also used in Firefox, but for a slightly different purpose. In firefox it refers to the chrome of the firefox window, as in: everything that isn't the website itself (think of the menu, favorites and status bar, the tabs, etc.). I don't know for sure, but I believe that plugins sometimes also use them, whenever they don't use "moz-extentions:".
i cant believe you upload still. used to watch you about 7 or 6 years ago when you made those videos like how to upgrade your ps3 to a ps4 and and how to charge your phone in 10 seconds. i believed that ps3 one and tried it but didnt work dissapointed as a kid but looking back at it. it was so funny and stupid
Same ngl
For a program i wrote years ago i even made my own protocol, it was some instant VPN stuff specific to route a Nintendo switch trough, i did use the protocols to be able to send server links trough discord and by clicking the program opened them and connected to them automatically
I haven't finished watching the video but thank you for putting the time and effort into making these videos, I truly appreciate it😊😃..... Okay now back to the video 👌😅
You also have the gopher:// uri wich was a predesessor of . If you go to edge://surf in the edge browser you get a mini game in the browser.
This is something I always wanted to look into but for some reason I never did.
Thanks for this!!
Back to longer videos 👍🏻
ye
There are also data URLs and a "about:" Chrome URL witch is the same as chrome:// but can load blank pages with about:blank.
Amazing video!
Thanks for quaility information theo. Am proud to always be a subscriber.
How can you not mention FTP?
I guess because the video is about "weird" protocols. FTP is not weird.
FTP is the best friend of Russian hackers. Use something like SFTP at the very least.
i was waiting for gopher:// 😢
HTTP (Hyper Text Transfer Protocol)
HTTPS (Hyper Text Transfer Protocol Secure)
DNS (Domain Name System)
URL (Uniform Resource Locater)
Let's not forget FTP, for downloading a file that is on an FTP server without any webpage. You don't need an ftp application to download the file, browsers van do that.
@@bobcat_the_Lion File Transfer Protocol
About:blank
@@tegarz to hide your por-
@@bobcat_the_Lion I use them a lot when setting up Linux mirrors
before watching this video i was legitmately joking that the magnet protocol would make your computer literally attract every peice of metal. it'd just become a gigantic magnet
idk why
it specifies what metals to attract
Fact: Middle clicking on the addr bar shows the full address too. 0:38
this man deserves a billion views...so much info in just 1 video :)
0:47 chrome:// does not belong to a program, it's any part of the browser chrome (i.e. everything that isn't the webpage, such as the tabbar and the settings page)
some browsers may use their own for most user-facing parts (about:preferences in firefox, edge://settings), but google chrome was named after this UI concept and the scheme chrome:// is also used for user-facing parts
This channel is gold. Talking as a non-dev who wants/needs to understand tech stuff.
Wonderful. Quick video, straight to the point.
Perfect.
Cool video, just enhanced my knowledge protocols.
you did an awesome job explaining everything!
To my knowledge there is also custom URIs for things like Google Play store links.
yeah although most android apps use the intent: URI scheme
I just found this channel, amazing video. You look like the kind of guy who wore glasses his entire life and has switched to contacts.
The steam console can be pretty useful for downloading an older version of some game file. A common use is to download an older TESV.exe file for Skyrim SE when modding with SKSE plugins.
That's pretty interesting, being able to access older versions of games sounds pretty useful. (but of course mainly for those goofy reasons that people would want to)
I think they are going to revoke that, like they will no longer keep old versions of games on their servers, sad
Meanwhile I use the Steam console to get status messages if a game doesn't load (etc), without having to launch Steam itself from a terminal window. (Though I'll do _that_ sometimes too, if a game keeps crashing or otherwise misbehaving enough.)
I remember ftp:// and gopher://
I thought he was going to mention those. Especially FTP since it's still being used.
@@jackkraken3888 I would have thought so too. These used to be a staple and I sometimes still use ftp. But I guess for the younger audience here ftp isn't as snazzy as steam:// and would be akin to showing them a typewriter...
I use ftp as a foothold when hacking if that counts as a young person knowing it lmao
ftp is super-powerful (and still used)!
@@geoffroi-le-Hook I'm annoyed that browsers don't seem to support ftp anymore.
In a barely topic: F&@# the police!
wow I learned alot of practical computing there, thank joe
I'm rather surprised that you didn't mention the classic (old) protocol gopher:// or its modern equivalent gemini://.
I was looking in the comments to see if anyone else was thinking that
@@toby3084 guessing that no one else has?
@@toranshaw4029 not from the comments I read
Hey ThioJoe how many computer screens tablets phones you have ever owned or send back that had a dead pixel ?
THANK YOU JOE! Never in all the years have I seen this documented.
Not mentioning the telnet protocol? I mean, it was really big back in the day. Wish you'd mentioned more of the protocols
I thought I seen this before. Love watching Emderman or FlyTech
Dude. What about FTP? Back in the day that was the only way to transfer files and the only way to upload html files in order to build a website. Am I really so old that no one knows about FTP protocols?
Brother thio joe thank you for helping me everytime
Thanks for mentioning a funny site where you showed a magnet link.
Oh, btw, 9:12 THE ONE PIECE
You forgot a very common one. about. about:blank being the most common use, I always set my new tab page to about:blank so it won't try loading anything. Firefox uses it extensively for its settings pages, you didn't mention Firefox at all, it only showed up once accidentally in the mailto part. Not everyone uses Chrome, and nobody intentionally uses Edge.
PEOPLE USE EDGE intentionally
Edge is just Chrome but faster with more out of the box features.
@@Coco-qy6stYOU DID NOT JUST SAY THAT.
@@TheRealMangoDev it's true. You can use the diagnostics to compare the loading speed. Edge wins most of the time and both browsers are built on Chromium.
@@Coco-qy6st that's actually Firefox
"Then it will pass that info to Steam"
**shows spotify logo**
A lot of browsers have the same kind of url like chrome. Like Brave, Edge, and Opera. So for brave it will be "brave://", edge will be "edge://”, and opera will be "opera://".
Also you know the dinosaur game Easter egg. Which in Chrome it's "chrome://dino", but this easter egg does exist in other Chromium browsers (try it you will be surprised).
Edit: The Chrome Easter egg works on Brave, but it doesn't seem to work on Edge anymore.
lol
Firefox is the outlier and uses about: for everything
@@KSPAtlas Yep I figured it out on my own, when I tried to enable flags on the browser. I had to look up how to go to the flags menu and I saw that it's "about:config" instead of "firefox://flags”.
Ever entered "about:config" in Firefox to adjust its settings?
"Why is there chrome in your adress bar, Seymour?"
"Oh, this isn't chrome, it's steam! Steam, from the steamed URLs we're having! Hmmm, steamed URLs!"
You visited a malware website for teaching us knowing the risk. Appreciated the risk and effort.
it's not really malware if you know what to look for... but ya... that site is better avoided nowadays... (too much clones anyways)
@Him pirates bay, and the clones themselves are more malicious than the original one.
@Him Information coming from (Illiterate and malicious malware spreading/sharing people that malicious website is actually safe) Person. Argument ended, no point in more conversation people who viewed this can take this honest advice or be sucked into this malicious information from a malicious person. Your choice.
@Him Great joke further illiterate person.
@@MaiderGoku Lol you literally just need to go to the main web domain with an adblocker and Windows Defender on and you are fine.
Love the content. Keep the nerdy stuff coming
thio: 'most hide it and only show it when you click on it'
me: laughs in firefox
So much interesting stuff I learnt from that! Very useful as a software dev :o
"Tells the browser what protocol or type of content..."
No, specifies the language used to communicate with the server in question...
That's what a protocol is. The language used to communicate.
3:30 haha he said "edge" 😂 (end my suffering)
I imagine this would be useful for people who like to do everything through the command prompt. Or maybe you could write a program to use the browser as a commands prompt
Or... You could just run the program through the command line. For "easy access" you can copy the program to or make a lnk file in system32 and execute any program you want.
Enderman has done it, just google enderman custom chrome protocol
I don't think many people use command prompt for everything thats more common for linux where the cli is a lot better
@@redcrafterlppa303 you don't need that, you just need to copy a program to your %path% and then you can use win+r and type your program name(parameters and arguments are supported) and run the program.
@@Sohlstyce I'm not sure what solution is better. The path solution bloats this global variable. There should be 1 empty folder for the user to put these programs in. Like autorun
Not sure why this video popped up on my dash, being a year old lol but it's a very interesting intro to the concept of protocols. Do you think you'll do a follow-up to explain some other protocols in greater detail to help people explore parts of the internet outside of the commercialized web that most people think of as the internet? I mean protocols like FTP and Gopher, both of which still get used sometimes, or Gemini which is a more modernized version of Gopher. Protocols like telnet, scp, and ssh are also worth covering. I think it's time for people to remember that the Internet is much more than just the web.
I use this for a game mod launcher. You can configure your mods on the web, and click a button and it will open the launcher and apply your mods to the game. More as a gimmick really, but it has the nice side effect that i can just send people a link in discord, to give many people the same mod setup.
Thanks for the information Thio.
Thanks for the video!
Thanks, Uncle Joe!
Thank you bro! It was helpful!
what's a better feeling than seeing that ThioJoe posted a new video :DDD
Fun fact: thats exactly what the desktop icons for steam or epic games do. An URI
I made my own protocols for a remote program i have made, that is very simple.
10:20 As a librarian, I used to use a program that had z39.50 support. It was old and not a web browser, because the protocol's intended use case was searching library catalogs from specialized client software. I assume you could have wanted some way to launch that from a web link back in the day; z39.50 actually predates the web by a couple decades, so you would have slapped that on early, static web pages. Now it has a number of attempted successors and is generally unnecessary in the modern environment, so I can see why it's in the historical category. You would probably block it rather than implement it to prevent a malicious URL launching a program with insecure legacy support!
Thanks ThioJoe
Very great details thank you
FTP, GOPHER, SSH, TELNET are some of many other non-HTTP, non-application protocols one may encounter.
This is hilarious, I just saw the EnderMan video, and though ha how funny now ThioJoe is making a related video? Turns out thats what caused it 😆
you actually don't have to go to the Registry to edit protocol associations, there's a page in settings for that
How fun! Thanks.
Weirdest URL I ever saw was to a gay site. C: [enter] ### 😂. (Say it out loud: See colon, enter, pound pound pound.)
Finally a way for me to hide an app and open it quickly instead of trying find it in the File Explorer 😂🤣
Windows + d hides all apps in a second
@@Idontwantahandleplease that’s not what this comment means. If you watched the video, it’s about how you could open apps with the web browser instead of the Start menu. Hence, removing the app from the Start menu so I can “hide” the app
Great video! I found it really useful
I wonder if this supports other kinds of protocols such as FTP (file transfer protocol), SMTP (simple mail transfer protocol), SSH (secure shell), etc. If they are supported, then does that mean that a protocol can be programmed to do things other than open a website or application?
I tried to create my own protocol before the video mentioned that it was possible just to create by copying, and I managed, when I came back I heard him talk about.
A lot of these seem to reference Microsoft Windows or other MS products. Are there any counterparts specific to, say, Debian, or FreeBSD?
Man, I was subbed to this channel..
And then TH-cam unsubbed me. Thank God for the algorithm putting this channel back under my nose since TH-cam decided to mess with my subscriptions.
thank you michael cera
From now on, I can watch almost all of your videos just bcoz of SUBTITLES. The TH-cam auto generated ones are not correct always. But thanks ThioJoe for adding SUBTITLES.
What happens if you type in edge:// in chrome or the other way around?
Your videos are useful, continue!
Bro you could start a Udemy course. You are really good at teaching things in simple ways.
Hey man I want to move my windows from a HDD to a SSD can you make a video about it?
I searched the web but there is no concise video talking about it would you mind to make one? Loved this video BTW 😅
Use cloning software.
There's macrium reflect or some shit but it always pops up reminding you to update it like a cryware but hey its free
try a port of dd from Linux to Windows
Actually, this is how Android etc works as well. When you select a file and share it to an app, etc, that's how apps can open each other (“deep linking”)
Very useful information more more please
I was curious how it works in Linux, as it has no such thing as a registry. Apparently it works via mimetipes. I only knew they are used to figure out which program to use to open a given file - the more you know
• 5:56 - Joe: "I need to show an example of a magnet link; what torrent can I use that will make me look classy? 🤔"
• 6:15 - ed2k 😀
• 6:28 - mailto : Bob? subject=Hey&body=Just+saying+hi.+😀
• 6:55 - * Specific to Windows 10 (they're definitely not available in XP). - 7:32 - Windows Store. 🙄
• 10:14 - Historical, so Archie, Gopher, Wais, FINGER…
• 12:25 - I remember making my own protocol a long time ago. I can't remember what it was for. 🤔
@@user-vn7ce5ig1z is Gopher really only historical now though?
Hey thio, you posted on Instagram about creating SSL certificates for your local devices. Was it successful? Care to make a video?
Before watching: about: is for internal browser pages, magnet is for torrents and calculator: is something that I've honestly never even heard about.
Chromebooks use chrome:// for almost any settings or shell based operations
Imagine if theres a rick roll protocol
So underrated! 😂
I guess it would be "rick-roll://” or "rickroll://"
If only
I will make that bc I have too much love for rickrolls
@@pyp2205 I WILL DO THAT LOL
rickroll://version/rick-ashley
Output:NEVER GONNA GIVING UPPP
NEVER GONNA LET YOU DOWN
ME:💀😐
Gamebanana uses this to have install buttons on the pages of some mods that open the corresponding mod loader and install the mod
5:58 i wonder which website you got that from haha
You're creative keep going✨✨✨✨✨..
Sender:your brother (Baraa) from Palestine
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thiojoe plays tf2 confirmed