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Feature Request

App URL to launch like winbox://sakne@192.168.88.1

This allow links from other applications (e.g. VSCode Extensions), or even HTML to open winbox. Using a URL allow other apps avoids other apps needing to know where WinBox is installed, nor does it require invoke a process (which is tricky from interpreted languages or web).

This is supported by Qt, and I think, should be relatively trivial. See https://doc.qt.io/qt-6/qdesktopservices.html#setUrlHandler (i.e. changes to .plist for Mac, and parsing URL in handler). And Windows has similar URL handler, which I’d imagine Qt use.

WinBox already supports arguments from CLI to accept user, password, and IP. Just more modern way to do it.

And, ideally, it look in “Saved” to find the password. I’m not suggesting it support :mypassword although perhaps that could be re-purposed for “group” so winbox://admin:mygroup@192.168.88.1

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