[rox-devel] Launching URLs

[Tony H. <h...@re...>]

What's the best way to launch a URL from a program so that it opens in
the user's favourite browser? Assuming their favourite browser is what
they've set as ROX-Filer's run action for HTML files.

What I've done is created an HTML file with a meta refresh to the web
site I want and open it with "rox $APP_DIR/redirect.html". It works but
I find it a bit of a kludge. I looked at ROX-CLib and that creates a
.uri file containing something like:

URL=http://www.whatever.net

But I can't find a run action that actually opens the URL. If you open
it in a (Gecko-based) browser it just shows the uri file as plain text.

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