@sanjoy.pal, is this something you could look into?

Hello,
Can you provide any news regardingng this issue ? (won't fix / work as intended / will look into it ?)
I'm looking forward to this because i don't have any knowledge of the application source and i'd rather have someone knowing what he is doing than trying to look for myself and pushing an incorrect resolution (ftr, my knowledge on this code language is really poor).

Thank you for your concern

xqvier, do you mean you registered ms-word: protocol by registerProtocolHandler() [1] or OS's protocol handler setting?

[1] https://html.spec.whatwg.org/multipage/webappapis.html#custom-handlers

Hi,
No, i didn't register the protocol handler via the webpage.
Microsoft Office register itself (at system level I think) to handle ms-word protocol during installation. (https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/office/dn906146.aspx §1.4)

cannot reproduce because:

$ wget https://srv.xqvier.com/webdav/Test-document-1.docx
--2016-08-05 16:23:35--  https://srv.xqvier.com/webdav/Test-document-1.docx
Resolving srv.xqvier.com (srv.xqvier.com)... 37.59.39.38
Connecting to srv.xqvier.com (srv.xqvier.com)|37.59.39.38|:443... failed: Connection refused.

Thoughts:
* People watching Blink>Loader are generally notvery  knowledgeable in custom schemes (inculding me), tkent: there should be a better label?
* Added a few folks to CC in case they know where to route this
* DoS-wise, not sure we want to make it possible for a webpage to spam a user with numerous msword: windows, leaning towards working as intended (added mkwst@ who is orders of magnitude more knowledgeable here)

Sorry,
I had to put the http server down for work-related purpose. 
I'll turn it back on Sunday. Will keep you tuned. 

Regarding the "work as intended" suggestion. Isn't it possible to make it work like the multiple download behavior ? Meaning : prompting the user with an alert that the webpage is trying to open multiple application related links ?

Regards

HTTP server back online. You should be able to reproduce now. 
Sorry for the delay.

Loading triager here. Changing component to downloads as it seems more related.

Moving out of downloads, since that part is working as intended. It seems like the the issue is with the URL not being handled by the correct plugin.

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Still p3