Re: [rox-devel] Launching URLs

[Matthew W. O. <mat...@we...>]

-- Thomas Leonard <ta...@ec...> wrote
(on Thursday, 27 May 2004, 03:20 PM +0100):
> On Wed, May 26, 2004 at 06:47:10PM +0100, Tony Houghton wrote:
> > 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.
> 
> Ideally, we get ROX-Session to set $BROWSER to a script that reads the
> current configuration setting (this works with non-ROX stuff too).

I like this idea.

> Otherwise, the handler for text/x-uri should be able to read a URI on
> standard input, if set.

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Matthew Weier O'Phinney
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