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Silo Direct Launch enables specially formatted URLs to launch seamlessly within the Silo for Safe Access environment. This enhances convenience by eliminating the need to copy and paste URLs — empowering content owners to enforce exclusive viewing within the Silo for Safe Access environment

System Requirements

• Access to the Silo Installed Client and/or Web Client

How does Silo Direct Launch work?

The default local web browser commonly registers itself as the primary handler for http:// and https:// requests. This registration allow end-users to open a web hyperlink in the local web browser

Silo Direct Launch follows a similar process, where the Silo Installed Client registers itself as the handler for both a8:// and a8s:// formatted URLs, and the launch# URL parameter is processed in the Web Client

For example:

• https://www.authentic8.com — launches in the local web browser
• a8s://authentic8.com — launches in the Silo Installed Client
• https://a8silo.com/launch#authentic8.com — launches in the Silo Web Client

Silo Direct Launch links can be accessed from a variety of starting points:

            — entered directly into a local browser's navigation bar

            — local browser bookmarks

            — embedded in email messages and documents

            — published as an A8-formatted hyperlink

Non-secure and Secure Web Requests

Similar to http and https, a8 and a8s are used to specify whether the web request should be handled as non-secure (a8) or secure (a8s)

For the Web Client, the launch# parameter can handle either http or https designation

Some Google products (e.g., Gmail, Google Docs), as well as Office365 may not recognize non-HTTP tags for hyperlink encoding —  your experience may vary as shown in the table below:

Please contact Support for any additional questions