Browsers on Linux should use xdg-open to open URLs. From xdg-open’s description:<\/p>\n
xdg-open opens a file or URL in the user’s preferred application. If a URL is
\nprovided the URL will be opened in the user’s preferred web browser. If a file
\nis provided the file will be opened in the preferred application for files of
\nthat type. xdg-open supports file, ftp, http and https URLs.<\/p><\/blockquote>\nMagnet<\/a> is a new type of URLs that’s currently not supported by xdg-open. It’s very easy to add a quick hack to support it though. Just copy xdg-open to a local binary path (e.g \/usr\/local\/bin or preferably $HOME\/bin) and apply the following patch. Change deluge<\/em> with your preferred torrent application.<\/p>\n
--- \/usr\/bin\/xdg-open 2010-09-15 14:08:29.000000000 +0300\n+++ bin\/xdg-open 2012-01-24 22:05:03.935338593 +0200\n@@ -437,6 +437,11 @@\n exit_success\n fi\n fi\n+ elif (echo "$1" | grep -q '^magnet:'); then\n+ deluge "$1" \n+ if [ $? -eq 0 ]; then\n+ exit_success\n+ fi\n fi\n \n sensible-browser "$1"\n<\/code2><\/pre><\/p>\n For those who don’t know how to patch a file, here it is in full: patched xdg-open to open magnet URLs<\/a><\/p>\n
Works fine on my Debian using Chrome<\/a> which properly uses xdg-open to handle URLs. Firefox<\/a> after version 3.5 became a piece of bloatware and it’s not possible to open magnet links using about:config settings<\/em> or xdg-open. For Opera<\/a> just go to Settings->Preferences->Programs and add new protocol with name magnet<\/em>. At Open with other application<\/em>, use the path that you saved the patched xdg-open.<\/p>\n
Now go download some creative commons licensed files.<\/p>\n
*UPDATE*
\nPatch for latest xdg-utils (since some people complained that previous patch does not apply):
\n\n\n--- xdg-open 2012-02-18 14:22:48.058497027 +0200\n+++ xdg-open 2012-02-18 14:24:04.326875223 +0200\n@@ -440,6 +440,11 @@\n exit_success\n fi\n fi\n+ elif (echo "$1" | grep -q '^magnet:'); then\n+ deluge "$1" \n+ if [ $? -eq 0 ]; then\n+ exit_success\n+ fi\n fi\n \n IFS=":"\n<\/code2><\/pre><\/p>\n *UPDATE 2*
\nFor Firefox\/Iceweasel one can do the following:
\ngo to about:config and right-click. Then click on New->Boolean->network.protocol-handler.expose.magnet -> Value -> false
\nUpon the next click Firefox\/Iceweasel will ask you to choose a program to open magnet links, choose the patched xdg-open posted above.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Browsers on Linux should use xdg-open to open URLs. From xdg-open’s description: xdg-open opens a file or URL in the user’s preferred application. If a URL is provided the URL will be opened in the user’s preferred web browser. If a file is provided the file will be opened in the preferred application for files […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ep_exclude_from_search":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,3],"tags":[25,452,33,451,114,125,595,449,453,450,500],"class_list":["post-1333","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-internet","category-linux","tag-bash","tag-chrome","tag-debian","tag-deluge","tag-firefox","tag-iceweasel","tag-linux","tag-magnet","tag-opera","tag-torrent","tag-xdg"],"aioseo_notices":[],"views":85422,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.void.gr\/kargig\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1333","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.void.gr\/kargig\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.void.gr\/kargig\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.void.gr\/kargig\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.void.gr\/kargig\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1333"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/www.void.gr\/kargig\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1333\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1339,"href":"https:\/\/www.void.gr\/kargig\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1333\/revisions\/1339"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.void.gr\/kargig\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1333"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.void.gr\/kargig\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1333"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.void.gr\/kargig\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1333"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}