Navigator: unregisterProtocolHandler() method

The Navigator method unregisterProtocolHandler() removes a protocol handler for a given URL scheme.

This method is the inverse of registerProtocolHandler().

Syntax

unregisterProtocolHandler(scheme, url)

Parameters

scheme

A string containing the permitted scheme in the protocol handler that will be unregistered. For example, you can unregister the handler for SMS text message links by passing the "sms" scheme.

url

A string containing the URL of the handler. %s.

Return value

None (undefined).

Exceptions

SecurityError DOMException

The user agent blocked unregistration. This might happen if:

• The scheme (protocol) is invalid, such as a scheme the browser handles itself (https:, about:, etc.)
• The handler URL's origin does not match the origin of the page calling this API.
• The browser requires that this function is called from a secure context.
• The browser requires that the handler's URL be over HTTPS.

SyntaxError DOMException

The %s placeholder is missing from the handler URL.

Permitted schemes

For security reasons, unregisterProtocolHandler() restricts which schemes can be unregistered.

A custom scheme may be unregistered as long as:

• The custom scheme's name begins with web+
• The custom scheme's name includes at least 1 letter after the web+ prefix
• The custom scheme has only lowercase ASCII letters in its name.

For example, web+burger, as shown in the Example below.

Otherwise, the scheme must be one of the following:

• bitcoin
• ftp
• ftps
• geo
• im
• irc
• ircs
• magnet
• mailto
• matrix
• mms
• news
• nntp
• openpgp4fpr
• sftp
• sip
• sms
• smsto
• ssh
• tel
• urn
• webcal
• wtai
• xmpp

Examples

If your site is burgers.example.com, and you have a web+burger: scheme, you can unregister the handler for it like so:

navigator.unregisterProtocolHandler(
  "web+burger",
  "https://burgers.example.com/?burger=%s",
);

This script must be run from the same origin as the handler URL (so any page at https://burgers.example.com), and the handler URL must be http or https.

Specifications

Browser compatibility