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Topic: Re: Which protocols are supported by Acrobat? (Via Email)
Conf: (P-PDF) Mac Issues, Msg: 95817
From: LeonardR
Date: 9/4/2003 11:57 PM
At 10:42 PM +1000 9/4/03, p-pdf-mac-issues Listmanager wrote:
>Are there any other protocols than http that are supported for
>direct downloading by Acrobat?
https.
Though in Acrobat 6, you can also use SOAP for communications
(which does, admittedly sit on top of HTTP, but the idea is good!)
>If not, can I edit some file and change the http-prefix to something
>else, like pdf or acrobat (to allow Acrobat to download pdf:s from
>URL:s like pdf://domain.com/document.pdf)?
No.
>The reason I ask is that I want my proxyserver to change
>http://domain.com/document.pdf I encounter while browsing the web to
>use another protocol (pdf://domain.com/document.pdf) - to force the
>browser to open them directly in Acrobat.
>
In that case, you don't need to do anything with Acrobat -
just adjust your Internet Configurations in Mac OS. You can map any
URL type/prefix to any application.
Leonard
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