The old Microsoft Edge had a big security hole where you could just open an app from a website using the protocols. If you use some clever JavaScript to make a loop of it, you can't stop that until you power cycle your device.

@AtomicNotes

3 жыл бұрын

Yes! I watched a video by a youtuber called flytech and he abused that.

@NewChannel-mx8uo

3 жыл бұрын

@@AtomicNotes hey me too

@smoked08

3 жыл бұрын

@@AtomicNotes can you send me that video please? At least it's title so i can search and watch it

@mrrage2265

3 жыл бұрын

that would just be a troll fork bomb website lol

@michaellin7936

3 жыл бұрын

Perfect fork bomb

Ah yes magnet links. Used exclusively for downloading Linux ISOs... right?

@uncommonusername

8 күн бұрын

🏴‍☠️

@wiglett_

8 күн бұрын

Definitely

@vinegar6676

7 күн бұрын

absolutely

@aravindmuthu5748

7 күн бұрын

yes yes yes yes yes yes yes yes yes

@gonderage

6 күн бұрын

for sure, yeah.

The Steam one is actually what is used for Steam's desktop shortcuts. They don't point to an exe like normal app shortcuts, they instead point to a Steam URL telling Steam which game to launch (and launching Steam if it's not already running)

@Cootshk

Жыл бұрын

the reason for this is that steam unpacks a game at launch as part of DRM

@technicalmaster-mind

4 ай бұрын

Nice

@aftdawn

6 күн бұрын

@@Cootshk it doesn't "unpack", it just tells steam to run the game, no fancy compression needed, its just so that steam knows so that friends can see

@NGGiovanni

3 күн бұрын

@@aftdawn but some games actually need for steam to open them, there actually may be some anti piracy measures by doing that too

I want more of this type of content from this channel, all the nerdy details, everything.

@GamingFrazix

3 жыл бұрын

Hm u really think it was like this from the start at the start he showed people how to *_DoWnLoAd RaM_*

@ThePowerRanger

3 жыл бұрын

@@GamingFrazix I know of the glorious days you speak of comrade but those days are behind us, we must look forward.

@GamingFrazix

2 жыл бұрын

@David Herriot this WAS a troll channel but now he has deleted and privated all his troll videos :)

Actually, the mailto: protocol is really powerful ! Because you can actually put in the subject, and the body inside.

@bubu_hehe

3 жыл бұрын

At least you can't send it automatically

@ajddavid452

2 жыл бұрын

@@bubu_hehe JavaScript: let me introduce myself

@Ruchunteur

2 жыл бұрын

@@ajddavid452 but then it's not with the mailto.

@bubu_hehe

2 жыл бұрын

@@ajddavid452 But it isn't with he Mailto:// and the user would have to run the javascript for it to send an email, so you cant just send emails using an URL

@bitonic589

2 жыл бұрын

@@bubu_hehe Just realized it's mail-to not mal-i-toe

In a book, I once saw a reference that said "file://D:\text.pdf"

@optimistemo01

3 күн бұрын

ok let me explain file:/// is pc file protocol. it always run like a directory tree Even if there is : afterwards, it will see it as a part of name and not protocol.

@markylon

3 күн бұрын

Yes it's perfectly correct.

@bernardonegri5416

3 күн бұрын

The URL might be correct in the sense that it is a valid URL, but it is absolutely useless if I want to use it to read the reference.

@markylon

3 күн бұрын

@@bernardonegri5416 Looks fine to me, the D drive root directory and the file is called text.pdf so not sure what your issue is

@markylon

3 күн бұрын

Oh I see they had that printed in the book as a citation. Which is useless as you don't have access to their D drive ahahah Got you now. I actually saw an advert in a printed magazine that said "CLICK HERE" I wonder how many people tapped the paper

about:blank has to be my favorite website

@jaecadejnight

2 жыл бұрын

lol its literally nothing

@killertigergaming6762

2 жыл бұрын

Why does that even exist i get it so much

@UziDoorman000

6 күн бұрын

cloak

8:16 these protocols have been around since Windows 8, almost every UWP app has its own protocol so it can be called basically anywhere in the system.

@siggegaming1704

2 жыл бұрын

so Minecraft uwp has an protocol

@GamingFrazix

2 жыл бұрын

@@siggegaming1704 BRUH WTF Minecraft:// ACTUALLY WORKS!

@will.gallegos

10 күн бұрын

@@GamingFrazix On macOS, it doesn't work unfortunately, but roblox:// does :)

@joostvhts

8 күн бұрын

@@GamingFrazix Minecraft://give?to=joost&item=TNT&count=999

ThioJoe: *uses Steam in the example* Also ThioJoe: *uses Spotify as the visual aid*

@elmosworld1345

Жыл бұрын

108 likes and only 1 comment let me fix that

@annuraggg

Жыл бұрын

115 likes and only 2 comments? let me fix that

@Yuvraj-Sachdeva

Жыл бұрын

133 likes and only 3 comments? let me fix that

@wardengamer374

9 ай бұрын

139 likes and only 4 comments? let me fix that

@ahq_founder

9 ай бұрын

141 likes and only 5 comments? Lemme fix that

12:50 In the olden days some sysadmins used to create protocols to open terminal apps so you could have webpages that displayed info about servers and then have a link to open a terminal to that server.

@SFSAtlas

3 жыл бұрын

Can't you do that with SSH?

@jwhite5008

10 күн бұрын

Hey! I did that and just a couple of years ago. Didn't know it's a thing anyone else have done though. (not to actual servers but very similar things. maybe i'll do servers too if I have time) Yes you can open Putty or similar, but you may need a URI decoder and parser program just as the video said

@mtarek2005

8 күн бұрын

​@@jwhite5008you can register the ssh: scheme and some apps will work with it

There're also a number of protocols and URI Schemas that can be used on iOS to launch apps in different states, like different pages of the Settings app, and if I'm not mistaken, SpringBoard (the home screen). These can be used from a shortcut within the Shortcuts app (by Apple), which allows you to make some rather nifty shortcuts (not to mention that shortcuts can execute commands on remote machines via SSH, which is a completely different, but very interesting, topic).

@FlameRat_YehLon

3 жыл бұрын

The problem though, is that most of the apps seems to be not that well documented, probably to avoid people finding a way to skip launch ad or something... But still there's little documentation even for official Apple apps, and that gets in the way way to often I just don't find shortcut that useful.

@MZZenyl

3 жыл бұрын

@@FlameRat_YehLon I quite like shortcuts, allows me to launch applications on my PC remotely simply by executing a voice command.

@FlameRat_YehLon

3 жыл бұрын

@@MZZenyl well... Since I'm a Windows user and my PC is really funky (mobile chipset on a desktop motherboard) I'm out of luck, as my PC doesn't meet the requirement of Windows 11. But otherwise, that'd be really creative.

@MZZenyl

3 жыл бұрын

@@FlameRat_YehLon I'm also a Windows user, and none of my computers meet the requirements for Win11 (both in terms of the CPUs being too old, and a lack of TPM). As for launching applications on my PC from my iPhone, that'll work for all computers, be it Windows, macOS, or Linux. It works via SSH, and you can easily set up an SSH service on a Windows machine.

@KoushikBallari

3 жыл бұрын

@@MZZenyl how do you do this? And is it secure if you use a private key and can it be done on a IOS device/ iPhone?

6:28 I think it's worth just to add on to this (if not just because it's an interesting fact to know): There's actually nothing special about what we call "email addresses" that set them apart from normal URLs. The part before the "@" specifies what the username is, and you can add that to basically any url and the server will use that as your username. It's also possible to send both a username AND password, but these are not supported by most modern websites for obvious reasons. back on topic: The only thing that makes an email an email is the "mailto" scheme at the beginning which tells the client to use the address for sending and receiving emails. Almost all email clients like Gmail and Outlook will implicitly assume it's there the same way web browsers will assume urls have the http prefix when entered there.

@henke37

2 жыл бұрын

I wouldn't call the reasons obvious.

@Sollace

2 жыл бұрын

@@henke37 Simply put, it's not secure. If you have your username and password in the url, literally anyone can see them and use the same url to log in as you.

@vvinterwulf

Жыл бұрын

@@Sollace anyone with physical access to the computer, right?

@Sollace

Жыл бұрын

@@vvinterwulf Anyone who can see the url. It could be your mom looking at your browser history, or NordVPN with your traffic logs. Physical access isn't really a factor if all you need is a cursory glance and you have both the credentials and the location to use them in one place.

@vvinterwulf

Жыл бұрын

@@Sollace gotcha, thanks!

Your videos are so soothing and relaxing. I know most of this info already (I'm a huge nerd), but I still watch all your videos! You also word things very well, explain in-depth, and it's actually very helpful and interesting.

Very freaking awesome! Had no idea about registry keys for protocols. That explains where that association between a protocol and the program is captured. Thio forever!!!

URL used to stand for "Universal Resource Locator", rather than "Uniform Resource Locator" - I wonder if that is just an American thing or it was changed since back when did my Masters in Computing in England.

@mahdi-hasan

3 жыл бұрын

Same here.

@SuperPickle15

2 жыл бұрын

They have always been Uniform Resource Locator, as described by RFC 1738. However, URI were called "Universal Resource Identifier" as decribed in RFC 1630. But, in a 1992 paper by the ITEF, they were being refered to "Uniform Resource Identifers". So i guess both names are correct, but Uniform has became the popular term over time.

@nepsoundfont4035

2 жыл бұрын

Uniform Resource Locator suggests that the computer is trying to find some materials required to manufacture a uniform of some kind and mass produce said uniform for everyone on earth lol

@builderbbob

2 жыл бұрын

I learned it as Universal in 5th grade…

@liamdonegan9042

4 күн бұрын

@@SuperPickle15 "An early (1993) draft of the HTML Specification referred to "Universal" Resource Locators. This was dropped some time between June 1994 (RFC 1630) and October 1994 (draft-ietf-uri-url-08.txt)."

before watching this video i was legitmately joking that the magnet protocol would make your computer literally attract every peice of metal. it'd just become a gigantic magnet idk why

@uncommonusername

8 күн бұрын

it specifies what metals to attract

"chrome:" is not just used for google chrome (and chromium). It is also used in Firefox, but for a slightly different purpose. In firefox it refers to the chrome of the firefox window, as in: everything that isn't the website itself (think of the menu, favorites and status bar, the tabs, etc.). I don't know for sure, but I believe that plugins sometimes also use them, whenever they don't use "moz-extentions:".

about:blank is my fav url it shows a lot of fully lit pixels at a 1:1 scale

I haven't finished watching the video but thank you for putting the time and effort into making these videos, I truly appreciate it😊😃..... Okay now back to the video 👌😅

Wonderful. Quick video, straight to the point. Perfect.

Thanks for quaility information theo. Am proud to always be a subscriber.

This is something I always wanted to look into but for some reason I never did. Thanks for this!!

i cant believe you upload still. used to watch you about 7 or 6 years ago when you made those videos like how to upgrade your ps3 to a ps4 and and how to charge your phone in 10 seconds. i believed that ps3 one and tried it but didnt work dissapointed as a kid but looking back at it. it was so funny and stupid

@nepsoundfont4035

2 жыл бұрын

Same ngl

this man deserves a billion views...so much info in just 1 video :)

you did an awesome job explaining everything!

This channel is gold. Talking as a non-dev who wants/needs to understand tech stuff.

Cool video, just enhanced my knowledge protocols.

Love the content. Keep the nerdy stuff coming

For a program i wrote years ago i even made my own protocol, it was some instant VPN stuff specific to route a Nintendo switch trough, i did use the protocols to be able to send server links trough discord and by clicking the program opened them and connected to them automatically

wow I learned alot of practical computing there, thank joe

THANK YOU JOE! Never in all the years have I seen this documented.

You forgot a very common one. about. about:blank being the most common use, I always set my new tab page to about:blank so it won't try loading anything. Firefox uses it extensively for its settings pages, you didn't mention Firefox at all, it only showed up once accidentally in the mailto part. Not everyone uses Chrome, and nobody intentionally uses Edge.

@braxabnewest

2 жыл бұрын

PEOPLE USE EDGE intentionally

@Coco-qy6st

Жыл бұрын

Edge is just Chrome but faster with more out of the box features.

@TheRealMangoDev

15 күн бұрын

@@Coco-qy6stYOU DID NOT JUST SAY THAT.

@Coco-qy6st

15 күн бұрын

@@TheRealMangoDev it's true. You can use the diagnostics to compare the loading speed. Edge wins most of the time and both browsers are built on Chromium.

@Planet27631

14 күн бұрын

​@@Coco-qy6st that's actually Firefox

I just found this channel, amazing video. You look like the kind of guy who wore glasses his entire life and has switched to contacts.

what's a better feeling than seeing that ThioJoe posted a new video :DDD

Brother thio joe thank you for helping me everytime

Thanks for the information Thio.

There are also data URLs and a "about:" Chrome URL witch is the same as chrome:// but can load blank pages with about:blank. Amazing video!

Thank you bro! It was helpful!

You also have the gopher:// uri wich was a predesessor of . If you go to edge://surf in the edge browser you get a mini game in the browser.

Great video! I found it really useful

Hey ThioJoe how many computer screens tablets phones you have ever owned or send back that had a dead pixel ?

Your videos are useful, continue!

Very great details thank you

Thanks for the video!

HTTP (Hyper Text Transfer Protocol) HTTPS (Hyper Text Transfer Protocol Secure) DNS (Domain Name System) URL (Uniform Resource Locater)

@bobcat_the_Lion

3 жыл бұрын

Let's not forget FTP, for downloading a file that is on an FTP server without any webpage. You don't need an ftp application to download the file, browsers van do that.

@pyp2205

3 жыл бұрын

@@bobcat_the_Lion File Transfer Protocol

@tegarz

3 жыл бұрын

About:blank

@thejellyguy

3 жыл бұрын

@@tegarz to hide your por-

@SFSAtlas

3 жыл бұрын

@@bobcat_the_Lion I use them a lot when setting up Linux mirrors

Awesome! Subscribed!

I’ve been wondering about this!

0:47 chrome:// does not belong to a program, it's any part of the browser chrome (i.e. everything that isn't the webpage, such as the tabbar and the settings page) some browsers may use their own for most user-facing parts (about:preferences in firefox, edge://settings), but google chrome was named after this UI concept and the scheme chrome:// is also used for user-facing parts

Thanks ThioJoe

Thanks, Uncle Joe!

Very useful information more more please

love ur contents

"Then it will pass that info to Steam" **shows spotify logo**

Not sure why this video popped up on my dash, being a year old lol but it's a very interesting intro to the concept of protocols. Do you think you'll do a follow-up to explain some other protocols in greater detail to help people explore parts of the internet outside of the commercialized web that most people think of as the internet? I mean protocols like FTP and Gopher, both of which still get used sometimes, or Gemini which is a more modernized version of Gopher. Protocols like telnet, scp, and ssh are also worth covering. I think it's time for people to remember that the Internet is much more than just the web.

great video! :) ❤

I thought I seen this before. Love watching Emderman or FlyTech

The steam console can be pretty useful for downloading an older version of some game file. A common use is to download an older TESV.exe file for Skyrim SE when modding with SKSE plugins.

@AltName7

2 жыл бұрын

That's pretty interesting, being able to access older versions of games sounds pretty useful. (but of course mainly for those goofy reasons that people would want to)

@Wieprzek

2 жыл бұрын

I think they are going to revoke that, like they will no longer keep old versions of games on their servers, sad

This is hilarious, I just saw the EnderMan video, and though ha how funny now ThioJoe is making a related video? Turns out thats what caused it 😆

ty joe!

I remember ftp:// and gopher://

@jackkraken3888

3 жыл бұрын

I thought he was going to mention those. Especially FTP since it's still being used.

@rreiter

2 жыл бұрын

@@jackkraken3888 I would have thought so too. These used to be a staple and I sometimes still use ftp. But I guess for the younger audience here ftp isn't as snazzy as steam:// and would be akin to showing them a typewriter...

@visvge4934

2 жыл бұрын

I use ftp as a foothold when hacking if that counts as a young person knowing it lmao

@insanitysportal6692

4 күн бұрын

ftp is super-powerful (and still used)!

@benbookworm

2 сағат бұрын

@@geoffroi-le-Hook I'm annoyed that browsers don't seem to support ftp anymore. In a barely topic: F&@# the police!

I'm rather surprised that you didn't mention the classic (old) protocol gopher:// or its modern equivalent gemini://.

@toby3084

3 жыл бұрын

I was looking in the comments to see if anyone else was thinking that

@toranshaw4029

3 жыл бұрын

@@toby3084 guessing that no one else has?

@toby3084

3 жыл бұрын

@@toranshaw4029 not from the comments I read

Nice vid!

I use this for a game mod launcher. You can configure your mods on the web, and click a button and it will open the launcher and apply your mods to the game. More as a gimmick really, but it has the nice side effect that i can just send people a link in discord, to give many people the same mod setup.

please tell me how to link windows notepad on google chrome bookmark bar , so i can access all the notepad text from bookmark bar

Wonderful video

How can you not mention FTP?

@Lovuschka

Жыл бұрын

I guess because the video is about "weird" protocols. FTP is not weird.

@AB-ms7my

5 күн бұрын

FTP is the best friend of Russian hackers. Use something like SFTP at the very least.

Do you know how to see what protocol is sent? I just see %1 but i wanna see whats behind that.

The epic games launcher app has its own web protocol that functions very similar to steams desktop shortcuts except epic shortcuts store a bit more data such as the action to perform usually to launch the game normally, but also if the shortcut should open the launcher window

Ever entered "about:config" in Firefox to adjust its settings?

This is so cool 🤩

To my knowledge there is also custom URIs for things like Google Play store links.

@mtarek2005

8 күн бұрын

yeah although most android apps use the intent: URI scheme

Nice video 🔥🔥🔥

Man, I was subbed to this channel.. And then KZread unsubbed me. Thank God for the algorithm putting this channel back under my nose since KZread decided to mess with my subscriptions.

Not mentioning the telnet protocol? I mean, it was really big back in the day. Wish you'd mentioned more of the protocols

Thanks, cool.

A lot of browsers have the same kind of url like chrome. Like Brave, Edge, and Opera. So for brave it will be "brave://", edge will be "edge://”, and opera will be "opera://". Also you know the dinosaur game Easter egg. Which in Chrome it's "chrome://dino", but this easter egg does exist in other Chromium browsers (try it you will be surprised). Edit: The Chrome Easter egg works on Brave, but it doesn't seem to work on Edge anymore.

@syxioyt

3 жыл бұрын

lol

@SFSAtlas

3 жыл бұрын

Firefox is the outlier and uses about: for everything

@pyp2205

3 жыл бұрын

@@SFSAtlas Yep I figured it out on my own, when I tried to enable flags on the browser. I had to look up how to go to the flags menu and I saw that it's "about:config" instead of "firefox://flags”.

Thanks bro

What happens if you type in edge:// in chrome or the other way around?

"Why is there chrome in your adress bar, Seymour?" "Oh, this isn't chrome, it's steam! Steam, from the steamed URLs we're having! Hmmm, steamed URLs!"

I was curious how it works in Linux, as it has no such thing as a registry. Apparently it works via mimetipes. I only knew they are used to figure out which program to use to open a given file - the more you know

"Tells the browser what protocol or type of content..." No, specifies the language used to communicate with the server in question...

@Sandromatic

2 жыл бұрын

That's what a protocol is. The language used to communicate.

thanks bro

thio: 'most hide it and only show it when you click on it' me: laughs in firefox

Gamebanana uses this to have install buttons on the pages of some mods that open the corresponding mod loader and install the mod

10:20 As a librarian, I used to use a program that had z39.50 support. It was old and not a web browser, because the protocol's intended use case was searching library catalogs from specialized client software. I assume you could have wanted some way to launch that from a web link back in the day; z39.50 actually predates the web by a couple decades, so you would have slapped that on early, static web pages. Now it has a number of attempted successors and is generally unnecessary in the modern environment, so I can see why it's in the historical category. You would probably block it rather than implement it to prevent a malicious URL launching a program with insecure legacy support!

I tried to create my own protocol before the video mentioned that it was possible just to create by copying, and I managed, when I came back I heard him talk about.

i was wondering about this

Hello this vid is very good

Very interesting

Dude. What about FTP? Back in the day that was the only way to transfer files and the only way to upload html files in order to build a website. Am I really so old that no one knows about FTP protocols?

nice video

Hey Joe can you make a video of what happens if you go in task manager and restart windows Explorer in windows process without it open please

You're creative keep going✨✨✨✨✨.. Sender:your brother (Baraa) from Palestine 🇵🇸🇺🇸

you actually don't have to go to the Registry to edit protocol associations, there's a page in settings for that

Back to longer videos 👍🏻

@syxioyt

3 жыл бұрын

ye

i'm always really sceptical about this channel like I have no idea what's a joke and what's genuine information

I like this content.

I made my own protocols for a remote program i have made, that is very simple.

What are your thoughts on the Gemini protocol?

Good video