Atlassian Corporation
Systems and methods for automatically detecting desktop applications

Abstract:

Described herein is a computer implemented method comprising receiving a link to content served by a remote server, detecting activation of the link, and in response to detecting activation of the link, attempting to load, via a web browser application, a passive mixed content item from a local web server. If the passive mixed content item successfully loads, the method further comprises accessing the content referenced by the link from a remote application server using an installed dedicated desktop application, the dedicated desktop application configured to operate with the remote application server. If the passive mixed content item does not successfully load, the method further comprises accessing the content referenced by the link from a remote web server using the web browser application.