WEB BROWSING

1. Overview of the browsing process

The web browsing process is initiated on the web portal and then managed by the PC software. The communication between the web portal and the software is handled by the advanced integration protocol VIPeers :

• When the user clicks on a bookmark button (or link) on the portal or a internet explorer page, it initiates the browsing of a web page on the software. This hyperlink uses the VIPeers URL protocol (i.e. hyperlinks are “vipeers://data” ).
• This VIPeers URL navigation opens the Software and passes the required parameters
• The Software adds the bookmark in the navigation tree and starts the browsing.

2. Parameters List

The metadata to be transmitted to the Software are:

Field Name	Type	Comments
mode	string	Must be equal to “browsing” which VIPeers protocol link is.
title	string	Title used to define the bookmark's name displayed
type (not required)	string	Bookmark type: - Search - Video - Audio - Favorite
url	string	Url of the web page

If the type is not specified, Pump open and browse in the url web page specified without any bookmarks created.

All parameters contained in the VIPeers URL have to be escaped as described in RFC 1738 part 2.2. http://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc1738.txt

3. VIPeers link Sample

vipeers://www.service.com/?mode=browsing&name=Google&url=http://google.com