Custom URL that opens my iPhone app - how is it done with Youtube

Question

Possible duplicate:
Is it possible to register an http + domain URL pattern for iPhone applications such as YouTube and Maps?

I know that I can create a custom URL scheme and run my application with it. So I can catch a URL like this:

myapp://image/1 

and open myapp showing user id id = 1.

But as far as I know, the YouTube app went a little different using this URL:

 http://youtube.com/v/<ID> 

The iPhone will catch the http scheme, but will start from the youtube address and open the YT app.

Is something like this possible with my own application, or is it some kind of private api? Can I somehow launch the application by opening the url:

 http://app.myapp.com/image/1 

or is it even impossible?

Answer 1

http / https / ftp schema name for web pages opened by Safari. I know these exceptions

• Web links pointing to http://maps.google.com are redirected to the Maps application.
• Web links pointing to http://www.youtube.com are redirected to the YouTube app.
• Links to the iTunes store (http://phobos.apple.com/etc ..) are sent to the iTunes app (or App Store).

I don't think you can do something like http://app.myapp.com/image/1 to redirect to your application.

Here is the Apple link scheme for the Youtube URL scheme.