Hello.
The son is using electronic textbooks starting this school year. The Ministry of Education has attached to their official website a working application (opening and reading books) that runs under Windows and Android platform. They has also published books packed in zip format. The zip file contains the book itself and under the subfolders is the multimedia part of the book (videos and music records, quizzes, etc.).
The application under Windows to be able to work with it completely, during the installation adds C ++ elements from the C ++ redistribution package, installs Chrome and installs a small program httpd.exe (It seems that the Apache server part is also used because the whole program is installed in the folder c: \ apache)
The problem: The books themselves are readable in any pdf reader BUT opening the links via any pdf reader (not through the installed software and Chrome) on the pages where there is multimedia activity and which lead to the multimedia files, redirects to an external link and Chrome (Firefox) gives link error, i.e. does not open anything.
Now, under Windows, when the same link is opened from Chrome within installed application, the above-mentioned small program httpd.exe performs some kind of redirection of the pages in the book and through the Windows application (where Chrome is the basic browser) they open without any problems.
Question: Is it possible to do something similar under Ubuntu (intercept, redirect) and open the listed problematic links without any problem, without using the specified application under Windows (open the book with a regular pdf reader and when the multimedia link is selected, the required multimedia open a file without any problems from under the folder where it is placed) and to be able to work only under Ubuntu not to be forced to use Windows for just this application?
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