I want my intent to be launched when the user goes to a certain url: for example, the android market does this with http://market.android.com/ urls. so does youtube. I want
You might need to add different permutations to your intent filter to get it to work in different cases (http/ https/ ect).
For example, I had to do the following for an app which would open when the user opened a link to google drive forms, www.docs.google.com/forms
Note that path prefix is optional.