wine users - Dec 2011 - wine's iexplore: application protocols ?

I too had been wondering how certain applications manage to register custom
protocols that indeed belong to them as when compared to the usual http we all
know. Now correct me if I am wrong but it seems to me that Custom protocols do
work in any kind of Wine applications.

On Mon, 2011-12-12 at 22:20 -0600, vichu11 wrote:
> I too had been wondering how certain applications manage to register
> custom protocols that indeed belong to them as when compared to the
> usual http we all know. Now correct me if I am wrong but it seems to
> me that Custom protocols do work in any kind of Wine applications.
> 
It depends on how the protocol is implemented: if the code implementing
it runs in user space, e.g. its compiled into the EXE or is part of a
library module (DLL), then it should work with Wine, but if its been
implemented as a device driver then you're out of luck because you can't
install Windows drivers in Linux or OS X.


Martin