Is ms-rd://HOSTNAME URL for RDP connection valid?
Since 0ae59467 / in GNOME 42, Settings has given the remote desktop address for RDP in the form ms-rd://hostname
. Here is the screenshot from the GNOME 42 release notes:
While filing an issue against Connections about handling this URI scheme (and others like rdp://
and vnc://
, which it currently doesn't claim support for via the .desktop
file MimeType=x-scheme-handler/rdp;...
mechanism either) I went looking for a spec for this scheme. Here it is. The spec documents that ms-rd
URIs have the following form:
ms-rd:command?parameters
where command
must be one of the following:
-
subscribe
(which takes aurl
parameter) - "Using ms-rd: without any commands launches the client."
- That's it, that's the whole list
So I don't think the URL given by GNOME Settings, with a hostname in the command field, is actually valid. Sorry, I haven't tried opening these URLs on my Windows machine, and I can't find any apps for Linux that support ms-rd:
(not even Remmina which supports vnc://
, rdp://
, ...). So it could be that the spec is wrong.