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URL Schemes supported by Sciter

Common URL schemes:​

http://... and https://...​

Access to remote resources using HTTP protocol. Sciter uses platform HTTP clients: WinINET(Windows), CoreNetwork (MacOS) and libcurl (Linux).

file://...​

Access to local file system. Sciter uses direct reading from FS using memory mapped files.

data://...​

Standard inplace data encoded scheme.

Sciter specific schemes:​

home://path...​

Access to files in local file system relative to location in FS of running sciter.dll/.so or application executable if Sciter is linked statically.

Example, getting local file placed in the same folder:

let res = await fetch("home://config.json");

sciter:resource...​

Access to resources embedded into Sciter itself.

Some resources that may be of interest for applications:

  • sciter:ux-master.css and sciter:master-base.css - so called master css declarations - default styling of elements.
  • sciter:msgbox.htm and sciter:msgbox.css - definition of built-in message boxes: Window.this.modal(<alert>...</alert>), and so on.
  • sciter:icon-alert.png, sciter:icon-error.png,sciter:icon-information.png and sciter:icon-question.png - icons used in message boxes.

path:... and icon:...​

URL schema used in CSS to define vector paths - vector images:

  div { background-image: url(path: M 0 0 L 1 1 Z); }

Semi-official URL schemes:​

These schemes used in SDK only - outside of Sciter core - Sciter does not interpret them internally.

this://app/...​

Access to content of sciter archive - resources compiled in the application using blobs produced by packfolder[.exe] utilty.

See SDK's resource loader sources.

// bind resource blob with sciter::archive instance:
sciter::archive::instance().open(aux::elements_of(resources)); // bind resources[] (defined in "resources.cpp") with the archive
...
window->load(WSTR("this://app/default.htm"));

res:resource-name​

MS Windows specific: access to resources bundled into application.

See SDK's resource loader sources.