Opening TELNET from a web-link

[Mr. Brownstone]

In Windows I could click a link that was prefixed with telnet:// and my default TELNET program (PuTTY) would open it.

How can I do this in Ubuntu? Firefox complains that the protocol (telnet) is not associated with any program.

Many thanks.

[Mr. Brownstone]

Has anyone done this? Thanks.

[asipi]

the howto is browser dependent, what browser do you use?
the "key" is external protocol handling... the easiest in opera

[Mr. Brownstone]

Thanks for the reply. I use Firefox.

[asipi]

ok for firefox it is also not too difficult...
open a new tab and type in the url address field about:config
it will bring up the configuration page of firefox

you have to create 2 new line.
on an empty space on the page right-click and choose 'New->logical'
the name of the new key should be: network.protocol-handler.external.telnet
value should be: true

again on an empty space on the page right-click and choose 'New->string' (or could be other, I use FF in my native language but my tip is string )
the name of the new key should be: network.protocol-handler.app.telnet
value should be: /path/to/your/favorite/telnet/application

that's all
simple, isn't it?

[Mr. Brownstone]

Simple when you know how indeed.

Thanks a lot for that, I managed to use your advice to run a BASH script that pulled out the "telnet://" part of the address before passing the IP to gnome-terminal. (It seems that leaving it in causes problems.)

Here is the script if anyone else is interested:

#!/bin/bash
gnome-terminal -e "telnet ${1##telnet://}"