Ed2k links handling

The way to have aMule handle your ed2k links on your favorite WebBrowser will depend on which WebBrowser you use. So, here's a list of mini-HowTos for each of the most popular WebBrowsers. Have in mind that everywhere on this document, /path/to/ed2k should be replaced with /usr/local/bin/ed2k, /usr/bin/ed2k, C:\Program Files\aMule\ed2k.exe or whatever, depending on your own system's configuration.

As a general idea, in most Linux systems, self-compiled aMules will install the ed2k utility in /usr/local/bin/ed2k, while package-installed aMules will install it in /usr/bin/ed2k.

Internet Explorer

by Jacobo221

Go to "Start" -> "Run" and run "regedit" (without quotes). Now, in regedit, get to HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Classes\ed2k\shell\open
It could happen that ed2k didn't exist. In such case, create it by selecting "New" -> "Key" and entering ed2k as value. Then do the same with shell and open.
Once inside the open key, if command exists, just double click on it, but if it doesn't, go to "New" -> "Value" and enter the path to the ed2k application as an ASCII string value, followed by "%1" (with quotes), so you should end with some value like C:\Program Files\aMule2\ed2k "%1".

Konqueror

by gfdsa

/usr/kde/3.1/share/services you can find it by file names ended with .protocol kinda `find /usr -name "*.protocol"` or `find /opt -name "*.protocol"` or even put / to path if you want.

If the search was successful, create a file named like ed2k.protocol in the mentioned directory:

[Protocol]
exec=/path/to/ed2k "%u"
protocol=ed2k
input=none
output=none
helper=true
listing=false
reading=false
writing=false
makedir=false
deleting=false

Now just restart Konqueror.

Opera

by thermoman [Marcel Meckel], ender and Jacobo221

Edit /etc/opera6rc as root or ~/.opera/opera6.ini as non-root:

[User Prefs]
TrustedExternalURLProtocols=ed2k

[Trusted Applications]
ed2k=/path/to/ed2k ed2k://%u

Opera 6 doesn't pass complete URL to external programs; only URL without protocol. The way to walk around this follows.

In Linux or some other Unix-like flavour
Create amule_submit.sh with this content:

#!/bin/sh
/path/to/ed2k "ed2k://$1"

Change ed2k=/path/to/ed2k ed2k://%u with ed2k=/path/to/amule_submit.sh ed2k://%u

In Windows systems
Crate amule_submit.bat with this content:

X:\path\to\ed2k.exe "ed2k://%1"

Change ed2k=/path/to/ed2k ed2k://%u with ed2k=X:\path\to\amule_submit.bat ed2k://%u

Mozilla 1.7 (or later) & Firefox 0.9

by GhePeU

Mozex doesn't work anymore with Mozilla 1.7 and Firefox 0.9. There is an alternate method that seems to be working with both of them:

• Remove MozEx if installed or at least remove the ed2k input from it (only if MozEx is installed)

• Insert about:config in the address bar

• Right click on the list, select New, then Boolean; insert network.protocol-handler.external.ed2k as Preference Name and true as Value

• Now another right click, select New and String; insert network.protocol-handler.app.ed2k as Preference Name and /usr/bin/ed2k (or path to where the file is installed on you system) as Value.

Mozilla 1.3 to 1.6 & Firebird v0.6 & Firefox v0.8

by DeltaHF

Go to MozEx's WebPage and install the mozex-1.07.xpi file.
Restart your Mozilla/FireBird/FireFox, go to Edit -> Preferences -> mozex -> ED2K and set it to /usr/local/bin/ed2k %r
Click OK and you're done.

Note for Firefox 0.8 users
Instead of Edit -> Preferences -> mozex -> ED2K, you'll find MozEx's preferences at Edit -> Preferences -> Extensions -> mozex -> Options -> ED2K

Mozilla 1.2.1 or earlier

by rpokorny [R. Pokorny]

1) Go to Protozilla's WebPage
Choose the version fitting your Mozilla-version and click on Install. It will auto-install Protozilla.
Now close Mozilla completely.

Notes for Linux and other Unix-like systems users
- You must have write permission to the Mozilla installation directory. If you've installed Mozilla in /usr, you'll have to be root probably.
- The downloadable precompiled version of Protozilla apparently does not work with Debian's Mozilla packages. It does work together with the precompiled version of 1.2.1 available at Mozilla's WebPage for example (or you can build both Mozilla and Protozilla yourself).

2) This step is only necessary if you had to start Mozilla/FireBird/FireFox as root in step 1.

As root do: cp -r /root/.mozilla/PROFILENAME/RANDOM.slt/protozilla/ /home/USERNAME/.mozilla/PROFILENAME2/RANDOM.slt/

This will have copied protozilla-configuration from root's home directory to user's home directory.

cd /home/USERNAME/.mozilla/PROFILENAME/RANDOM.slt/ chown -R YOURUSER.YOURGROUP protozilla

This will have changed file-ownership parameters in user's files.

Note:
USERNAME: Name of your normal, non-root user.
PROFILENAME: Name of the profile you'll want to use.
RANDOM: Random alphanumeric string, autogenerated by mozilla.
YOURUSER, YOURGROUP: User and group of your normal user.

3) Setup a protocol-handler for ed2k links:
cd ~/.mozilla/PROFILENAME/RANDOM.slt/protozilla/protocol

create a file called ed2k.cmd with the following content:

ed2k ed2k:$URI_DATA

(The file doesn't need to be executable).

Now restart Mozilla.

More information

If the above information didn't help you enough, take a look at http://www.amule.org/amule/ed2k.php