title: Launching application from hyperlink
body: <p>I wondered if there is a way (on windows) to cause a pre-installed application to launch from a click on a hyperlink. For a basic example:</p>
  
  <p>The user has an application called SuperPing installed on their machine. If they were to click a link in their browser with the following URL, it would launch the applcation.</p>
  
  <pre><code>SPing://8.8.4.4
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>This would cause the following to happen:</p>
  
  <pre><code>"C:\SuperPing.exe" /ip 8.8.4.4
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>So my question is really, what would be the way to create this hook, to cause things to happen based on a URL. This is very similar to the way in which iPhones can launch specific apps when hooked up correctly to a link.</p>