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when browsing a webpage in internet explorer, there are on occasion links such as <a href="irc://irc.ircserver.net/channelname" target="_blank">irc://irc.ircserver.net/channelname</a> ... and when i click on them, mIRC opens up and connects accordingly. however i have more than one installation of mIRC, different installs for different purposes, does anybody know how (probably in the registry) to change what mIRC application opens by default with these links? thanks in advance for your help!

have you tried adding a port number i think the link should look like this:

<a href="irc://yourserverhere:6667/channelname" target="_blank">irc://yourserverhere:6667/channelname</a>

see if that works...

no the links work fine without the port number, i think u are misunderstanding my question....

that kind of link works fine, by clicking one, mIRC will open, connect to the network, then join the channel. however since i have more than one mIRC client installed, i want to be able to change which one loads by default. I think it has to do something with a registry file but I'm not sure...any other help? this is a tough one...

oh ok im sorry i did misunderstand your question and to be perfectly honest im not sure if thats even possible...i think the link just opens a mirc client up upon entering that url. I will look into it a little further and see if i find anything out

im not sure if this will help, but i figured out that to get mIRC to connect to a server and join a channel from the command line a command like the following needs to be run....

C:\IRC\mIRC.exe -sus.undernet.org:6667 -j#channelname

how to reflect this in the registry so that links like <a href="irc://network/server" target="_blank">irc://network/server</a> make mIRC connect to the specified channel though...that seems to be another challenge...

On the copies of mIRC you don't want to handle irc:// links:
1. Open the mIRC Options
2. Under the "IRC" tree(whatever it's called) select Catcher
3. Uncheck the "Enable support for Chat links.
4. Click Ok (obviously).

On the copy of mIRC you do want to handle irc:// links:
1. Open the mIRC Options
2. Under the "IRC" tree(whatever it's called) select Catcher
3. Check the "Enable support for Chat links.
4. Click Ok (obviously).

That worked for me in 3 copies of mIRC, had some bugs but eventually it worked..

i tried your suggestion, seems to work only partially for me for some reason however ... now when i click on a link the right client opens, but does not connect.