Re:TeamViewer installs suspicious font only useful for web f...
by WorldMaker on Wednesday July 20, 2022 @05:01PM
(#32172262)
> Of course, it would be better still if there was a standard way of setting up specific URL patterns under specific domains to automatically launch an associated desktop app if that app is installed.
The "PWA" standard for "/.well-known/apple-app-site-association" is "related_applications" [0] in the Web App Manifest standard and specifically here where "prefer_related_applications" [1] is set to true.
[0] https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/Manifest/relate...
[1] https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/Manifest/prefer...
Re:TeamViewer installs suspicious font only useful for web f...
by ayewo on Wednesday July 20, 2022 @09:37AM
(#32165607)
Interesting. Based on your comment, I did a quick check and only Zoom gives a valid response. The parent domain for Microsoft Teams don't seem to respect the convention.
https://zoom.us/.well-known/apple-app-site-association - 200 OK
https://www.microsoft.com/.well-known/apple-app-site-associa... - 404 Not Found
Re:TeamViewer installs suspicious font only useful for web f...
by vel0city on Wednesday July 20, 2022 @09:44AM
(#32165704)
www.microsoft.com is a pretty generic page. Microsoft makes a lot of applications other than Teams. Should it open Onedrive? Excel? OneNote? Xbox?
If you go to the actual Teams site, it does have the apple-app-site-association link.
https://teams.microsoft.com/.well-known/apple-app-site-assoc...
Re:TeamViewer installs suspicious font only useful for web f...
by ayewo on Wednesday July 20, 2022 @09:52AM
(#32165796)
Heh, I've never used teams before so when I did a few searches I got sent to www.microsoft.com and office.com. None of the links on page 1 and 2 of the SERP led to teams.microsoft.com.
Re:TeamViewer installs suspicious font only useful for web f...
by mwcampbell on Wednesday July 20, 2022 @10:02AM
(#32165938)
Not surprising; teams.microsoft.com goes straight to a login page, so you wouldn't know that's the domain unless you use the product.
Of course, it would be better still if there was a standard way of setting up specific URL patterns under specific domains to automatically launch an associated desktop app if that app is installed. iOS can already do this through the "/.well-known/apple-app-site-association" URL on the domain. It's why Zoom and Teams links, when opened on an iOS device, always go straight into the native app once that app is installed.
Edit to add: BTW, the file at the well-known Apple path also gives me a way of detecting a Zoom invite URL in one of my own products, even though Zoom URLs can have custom domains.