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In Windows, I can join a Skype Public chat by pasting a Skype chat link into a web browser's address bar (or clicking a link which contains that URI), but it doesn't work in my Ubuntu 10.04 using Skype 2.2.0.35.

The URI is generated by Skype from within a group chat via the command /get uri

Error messages from the following browsers are:

# Firefox ... the protocol (skype) isn't associated with any program
# chromium-browser ... just treats it as s google search argument
# konqueror ... Protocol not supported: skype

How can I get these skype:?chat&blob=... links to work?

Edit: as I've mentioned in response to Tom Brossman's good comment, the main issue has now become: which application should be used for handling the skype protocol... If it is Skype itself, what is the syntax? ... because skype "%s" does not process the protocol.

If someone has actually had success with the perl module skype-action-handler with a recent version of Linux Skype , it would be good to know.

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Peter.O
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    Can you try manually registering Skype links by following this [Register Protocol](http://kb.mozillazine.org/Register_protocol#Linux) page from Mozilla? I think Skype was causing crashes and so it is no longer handled by default. – Tom Brossman Mar 05 '12 at 07:56
  • @Tom Brossman: Thanks, that has got me one step closer... I can now get Firefox to present a *Launch Applicatin* dialog, but the issue now becomes ***which application?*** Using `skype` as the app doesn't work other than to launch another instance of itself... I've tried installing this perl module [skype-action-handler](http://blogs.skype.com/linux/2006/08/making_skype_links_work.html) as detailed in the post by *thestudio53* ... Howerever, it doesn't work, as a dependency fails (Moose). It was not a trivial compile and I have no idea why and where it went wrong. – Peter.O Mar 05 '12 at 10:34

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I'm the author of Net::DBus::Skype and skype-action-handler. That was a tool to interface with DBUS to send commands to Skype via the DBUS API. The skype-action-handler does exactly what Skype 4 will do via the --call argument

skype --call "skype:echo123"

skype-action-handler skype:echo123

Except I think I handled the URL format too which I don't think --call handles. I made this library and utility because back in 2008 the Skype for Linux was not nearly so polished. Originally, I believe it only used OSS even.

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  • Thanks for the answer Evan, and a special thanks for your efforts with `skype-action-handler`. – Peter.O Nov 02 '12 at 05:52
  • FYI skype-action-handler doesn't work with `skype:?chat&...` URLs. It says: `Invalid argument! (format: skype:echo123?call)` – pts Dec 26 '12 at 10:13
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To install skype-action-handler do:

sudo apt-get install cpanminus
sudo cpanm skype-action-handler

Update: Checked this suggestion myself. It almost works, but installs skype-simple-dialer instead. But that's irrelevant, because the latest version of Skype allows to select "Join a public chat" option above the contacts list and paste chat blob there.

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