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Identify the default mail, http and ftp applications

Joel Bruner

Lists the currently enabled applications configured to handle mailto, http and ftp schemes.

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SELECT * FROM app_schemes WHERE (scheme='mailto' OR scheme='http' OR scheme='ftp') AND enabled='1';

plist=~/Library/Preferences/com.apple.LaunchServices/com.apple.launchservices.secure.plist; echo "scheme,handler"; /usr/libexec/PlistBuddy -c "Print :LSHandlers" "$plist" 2>/dev/null | awk '/LSHandlerURLScheme/ {split($0,a," = "); scheme=a[2]} /LSHandlerRoleAll/ {split($0,a," = "); handler=a[2]; if(scheme ~ /^(mailto|http|ftp)$/) print scheme","handler}'