[tor-bugs] #28015 [Applications/Tor Browser]: Brainstorm improved ux for orgs that want to give bridges to their people

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#28015: Brainstorm improved ux for orgs that want to give bridges to their people
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 Reporter:  arma                               |          Owner:  tbb-team
     Type:  defect                             |         Status:  new
 Priority:  Medium                             |      Milestone:
Component:  Applications/Tor Browser           |        Version:
 Severity:  Normal                             |     Resolution:
 Keywords:  ux-team, education, documentation  |  Actual Points:
Parent ID:                                     |         Points:
 Reviewer:                                     |        Sponsor:  Sponsor19
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Comment (by eighthave):

 It should be pretty straightforward to use "bridge://" URLs on desktop
 platforms.  I only vaguely know Windows, but I've done this kind of thing
 on GNOME things and on Mac OS X over the years.  Both have a system-wide
 place to register apps that handle certain URL schemes.  So Tor Browser
 would just need to register itself to handle "bridge://" then receive it
 somewhere, and parse it. It should probably also bring up the bridge
 config UI after receiving such a link.

 The trickier case to handle in Tor Browser is perhaps the case where there
 is a bridge URL with an "https://" scheme.  Of course, all platforms will
 direct that to the browser, but only Android can provide strict matching
 of something like
 "https://bridge.torproject.org/config#984ujqw9d82m398end" (perhaps iOS
 also, but I don't know the details there).  Then the question is: if Tor
 Browser receives such a URL, is it appropriate for it to intercept that
 URL and show the bridge config UI instead of the web page?

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