HttpRedirector

Okay I said I wouldn’t do any more but I needed an app icon okay?? also an icon for .html icons because using a built-in windows icon is Bad

I added the Remove button. (it removes the regedit entries it makes to properly remove itself from the system)

It’s ready to ship!! (again)

I had to rework how my project was used because of the reason my project was rejected. Instead of installing it using an installer, I decided to make the program itself add the file associations in the Windows Registry for handing HTTP traffic. Because of this, it checks if another version of HTTP Redirector is configured to be used by Windows when opening the settings. This is why there’s so much time on this devlog. Turns out this stuff takes ages to handle UX wise lol. I’m almost ready to recertify my ship, I just need to add a “remove from system” button because I don’t want to leave traces of this on people’s systems when they want it removed!

Re-worked how browsers are detected, I was using a really old way of how Windows determines what browser to display in the Start menu. Now it checks every application to see if they register themselves as handling HTTP(S). Nothing interesting to look at here because the output is the same.

I made some small changes and fiddled with the installer a little bit, the program now has a Settings button when it’s running just in case you can’t find where it’s installed. It is now actually ready to ship!! I’ve made the GitHub release, so now it’s time..

Huh.. that was quick. I’m almost ready to ship!!
Launching the browsers wasn’t that hard, maybe two hours? The rest of the work was trying to get an installer that actually showed up as a default browser lol. I have attached some video demos.
I also created a settings page that lets you configure things like what browser to target by default and how long it should wait until it automatically launches. There’s a few things I might want to change for stability and maybe I should add custom browser support, but I’m happy to ship it as it is right now!! (I do need to get the installer to create a shortcut to the .exe file so i’ll have to wait until i can get it to dothat…)

Started on basic UI and installed browser detection. People install all sorts of weird browsers, so it actually checks what programs have registered themselves as browsers in the Windows Registry rather than using a hardcoded list. Hopefully this works out!! (this took ages to get working)