[ale] OT: Creating a URI on Windoze

[joh6nn at hotpop.com]

Christopher Fowler wrote:
> Is it possible to create a non-standard URI in windows?
> 
> I want to display a link on a web page that will fire up a PCAnywhere
> client to a remote machine.  I guess I also need to somehow be able to
> tell PCA what remote to connect to.
>   
> 

you mean like pcanywhere://wiki/foo/bar or something similar?  that's
possible, but it's frequently more trouble than it's worth.  msdn
article on it:
http://msdn.microsoft.com/workshop/networking/pluggable/overview/appendix_a.asp

good luck with it.

-joh6nn