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Asked: 2016-02-24 14:00:40 +0800 CST

Redirect user to an arbitrary application protocol (used by Android app)

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I have an Android application that declares an intent using a in-house protocol. You can launch it by opening a webpage that contains a link to :

myapplication://foo-bar

I want to an URL on my website that will anwser a 301 Redirect to that custom, in-house, made-up protocol. The idea is that our Android application will be launched when the user clicks on that link (the app is already installed).

I could simply add an anchro link in an HTML page, but I can't modify the HTML. I have to use Apache. I tried this mod_rewrite rule:

RewriteRule "^/app$" myapplication://foo-bar [R=permanent,L]

But it always prepend the host name in front, so I get this in the Location header:

Location: https://example.com/myapplication://foo-bar

How can I instruct mod_rewrite to use the URL as-is (myapplication://foo-bar)?

apache-2.2

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