URL Scheme for iBooks

Ever since version 1.1, iBooks has had PDF viewing functionality. Some apps like Dropbox allow viewing PDFs in iBooks. I'm assuming that this uses a URL scheme for loading PDFs into iBooks, since according to the developer docs that's how apps can communicate with each other.
However, the Apple URL Scheme reference (http://developer.apple.com/iphone/library/featuredarticles/iPhoneURLScheme_Refer ence/Introduction/Introduction.html) was last updated on 2009-06-17, and therefore makes no mention about iBooks, iPhone 3.2, or iOS 4.
Closest I was able to find was the itms-books: scheme which invokes the iBooks Store. I would like to know what the URL scheme is for invoking the iBooks PDF viewer. Any type of help is appreciated.

Can anyone confirm that iBooks 1.1 and 1.1.1 append "%20" to all externally-targeted URLs in PDF books?
As a result, I get a +Page Not Found+ page when initially navigating to an external URL. I have to truncate the 3 extra characters from the URL in Safari in order to load the intended web page.
These PDF files are well known to me and have always worked fine in this respect in Acrobat Reader.

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I went into investigate about the "optional URL scheme" setting you can set up during building an app in the viewer builder.
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Optional URL Scheme
Specify the custom URL scheme that launches the viewer app from Safari and other apps. […]For example, suppose you specify “com.sportspub.kayaking” as the URL scheme. If you embed a “com.sportspub.kayaking://” link on your webpage, clicking the link from the mobile browser opens the viewer app. […]
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But during testing this, I found out it's not that easy and/or not working as documented.
Bob set the URL scheme for his app supposedly to
com.dpstips.may5
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dps.7f80a0ffed3a4ff08734bc905aac4a29
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you see these links in the landing page of the web viewer on the iPad.
I collected all links and tests in this jsFiddle, that you can open on your iPad to test yourself: http://jsfiddle.net/YRUGj/15/
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Is this supposed to work this way or is this currently a bug that might be fixed soon?
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Felipe, I suspect you have some basic knowledge about nerdy stuff, follow
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2nd http://download.nordsueddesign.de/skitch/viewer-20120527-163947.png
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Any ideas folks?
root@kangaroo ~ # pacman -Syu
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error: failed retrieving file 'core.db.tar.gz' from repo.fukawi2.local : Invalid URL scheme
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warning: courier-authlib: local (0.62.4-1) is newer than stable32 (0.62.2-2)
local database is up to date
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Server = file:///srv/stable/i686/
[stable-any]
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[core]
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[extra]
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[community]
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[archlinuxfr]
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Last edited by fukawi2 (2009-09-13 23:23:47)

okayyyy... wtf pancakes.
I commented all repositories, except for core, extra and community and ran `pacman -Syu` which worked fine. I uncommented the other respositories and ran `pacman Syu` again. Everything worked fine again. Good.
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:: Synchronizing package databases...
stable32 is up to date
stable-any is up to date
error: failed retrieving file 'core.db.tar.gz' from repo.fukawi2.local : Invalid URL scheme
error: failed to update core (Invalid URL scheme)
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