rjpieke
20th July 2001 13:59 UTC

Winamp, upon installation, seems to register the PLS extension (among others) so that a visit to http://www.shoutcast.com allows you to click on a station and winamp immediately starts playing the stream, without asking any questions.

How do I achieve a similar result for my own file extension? Is there a certain registry section I need to write to? Is it different for IE and Netscape? Is it different for any versions of these browsers?

Thanks a lot! =)

Koen van de Sande
21st July 2001 16:52 UTC

You want a file extension which opens right away (without asking Open/Download of IE), right?
I believe you need the EditFlags property of the file type subkey in the HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT. I'm not really sure though.
(try looking at MPEGFILE - it automatically opens the Windows Media Player (on my PC), if I click on a movie in IE).

rjpieke
23rd July 2001 13:35 UTC

Thanks! EditFlags was indeed the solution =)