Open Ghostty via HTTP Redirect

[holtkampjs]

Description

Hi! I've been using Ghostty as a daily driver for a while now. In a scripting context, I've arrived on a situation where I'm redirected to the web browser for authentication. I have the ability to configure where I'm redirected after the work in the web page is finished. What I want to do is redirect myself back to the Ghostty application.

The HTTP response I've prepared looks something like:

HTTP/1.1 302 Found
Location: ghostty://open?url=file://$(pwd)
Content-Length: 0
Connection: close

I know this doesn't work. But the way that VSCode can redirect to the browser, handle work in the browser, and redirect back to the application is a similar concept I was curious if there's a way to do in Ghostty now or in the future.

I could see "open in ghostty" being a useful concept for users who want to build a CLI centric application that may need to defer tasks to the browser or other applications.

Thanks!

[pluiedev]

This suggestion more about accepting custom Ghostty URIs, and like... I'm not opposed to it but I think we need to be wary with the scope so that it doesn't fall into #2353 territory. I think just being able to open Ghostty is fine - changing the config, running arbitrary actions, etc is #2353 territory.

[mitchellh]

Agree with @pluiedev. To add to this, my obligatory response but its important: what do other terminals do here?

[pluiedev]

Looks like iTerm2 supports arbitrary URL schemes? That's really cursed.

You can configure a profile to handle a URL scheme, such as ssh. When a hyperlink is clicked on with that scheme, a new tab is opened with the selected profile.