Deep links into Xcode from GitHub comments #176
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Fixes #160.
However, the solution wasn't straightforward. The deep links into Xcode are in a format of
xcbot://mycomputer.local/....
, which has a scheme ofxcbot
, which isn't on GitHub's whitelist - so they were getting blocked by GitHub.However, I'm already running a tiny server called Satellite, which is used for Buildasaur build badges. So I reused it to proxy to the required urls.
So the way it works now is that the links here on GitHub point to Satellite - and when you click on one, Satellite immediately redirects you to the right
xcbot
link.It's almost not noticable, so I just thought I'd let people know. But yeah - deep links for everyone!
Currently, they show up in two places:
Let me know if this works for you.