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I have a web page that lists servers I need to connect to. This page has several hyper links for each server to key webpages on that host. I wanted to be able to connect using ssh too, at the click of a link. (eg: ssh://myserver.example.com and ssh://user@myserver.example.com)

I started doing a bit of research into this and have been able to set it up!

On Fedora 10: 1. Open Firefox and go to: about:config. 2. Right Click > New > Boolean > Enter the following name “network.protocol-handler.expose.ssh” and then “true” 3. Right Click > New > Boolean > Enter the following name “network.protocol-handler.external.ssh” and then “true” 4. Right Click > New > Boolean > Enter the following name “network.protocol-handler.warn-external.ssh” and then “false” 5. Right Click > New > String > Enter the following name “network.protocol-handler.app.ssh” and then “firefox-ssh.sh” 6. Close Firefox 7. Create a script here (/usr/local/bin/firefox-ssh.sh) with the following in it:

  1. !/bin/bash

gnome-terminal -e “ssh `echo $1 | sed -e “s/ssh:\/\///”`” 8. Run chmod +x /usr/local/bin/firefox-ssh.sh 9. Open Firefox and go to a link like ssh://myserver.example.com