UrlConf is a handy little freeware utility made by ‘rscharfe’ over on CodePlex.
It lets you configure URL protocol handlers for Windows, and add your own. It’s a handy front end to what you’d otherwise have to do through gnarly Registry editing.
For whatever reason PuTTY, my terminal of choice, doesn’t register a ssh protocol handler itself. UrlConf to the rescue! I’ve set it up so I can SSH somewhere using: ssh://[hostname], eg, ssh://google.com.
It’s pretty simple to do, and is documented in the discussions.
1. Fire up UrlConf, go to the Advanced tab, right-click and select “New”
2. In the program field, select the UrlConf executable (not PuTTY itself)
3. In the parameters field, enter:
”%1” port=22—“e:\windows\PuTTY.exe” -P $p $h
4. Hit ‘OK’ and it will take effect.
Including the quotes, and obviously change the path to PuTTY as required. Now you can just hit [WinKey] + [R], “ssh://my.machine.com.org”, [Enter] and off you go.
