Re: [Lynx-dev] magnets and lynx

[Jude DaShiell]

I seem to remember alternates or .mailcap in this context but that was a
long time ago and I lost the message traffic.


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On Mon, 5 Aug 2024, David Woolley wrote:

> On 05/08/2024 09:58, Jude DaShiell wrote:
> > I have bittorrent clients and there are pages on the web describing how to
> > do this using other browsers.  search for how to download a magnet and
> > you'll find those pages.
>
> Firefox has a mechanism to call external programs based on the URI scheme, as
> well as on payload content-type.  I'm not sure if Lynx has an equivalent, but
> if it did there would be a file that you edited that mapped the magnet scheme
> to µTorrent, or similar.
>