Hello everyone,

I am experiencing a problem with the URLs and some characters. E.g.

file:///home/user1/help/file.html#help

It does not work, because the result is:

file:///home/user1/help/file.html%23help

Web browsers say "File not found." (FF, Konqueror, Chromium)

I tried TProcess, ExecuteProcess and UTF8Process, without positive results.

Thanks in advance for any help.

Can you try the code from
http://home.tiscali.nl/~knmg0017/software/fpc_laz/browserdetection.tgz ?

Bart

These functions are for executing files, and don't take URLS (which are a web thing)

Try openurl.

I'll try your option, but I have many years using without problems:

Process1.CommandLine := '/usr/bin/www-browser'+
' '+GetCurrentDir+PathDelim+HelpFile+Context;

All the problems are after upgrading to Mandriva 2010.1

Thank you.

2010/8/12 Marco van de Voort :

Can you send the output of strace -f ? It will tell us what arguments the www-browser program gets.

Most likely, the www-browser script transforms the URL to something else. If this is so, there is little we can do about it.

Michael.

Luis R. Hilario B. wrote

I'll try your option, but I have many years using without problems: Process1.CommandLine := '/usr/bin/www-browser'+ ' '+GetCurrentDir+PathDelim+HelpFile+Context;

No doubt, but I believe that most distreaux now support xdg-open which should be used rather than hardcoding the name of a browser binary.

The same problem with OpenURL.

"Can you send the output of strace -f ?"

I do not know exactly what you mean, but I have this output in the console:

<unknown program name>(11573)/ ClientApp::doIt: Creating ClientApp kioclient(11573) ClientApp::kde_open:
KUrl("file:///home/luis/Documentos/Proyectos/klinton/Klinton_fuentes/klintonl/AYUDA/AYUDA.HTML%233.1._La_ventana_de_configuraciones")

The web browser can not find the file with the characters "%23" which is "#", even if well interpreted in the URL, such as Konqueror.

I manually execute the order, and says the same, but the browser open the page (the only difference is the symbol):
/usr/bin/www-browser
file:///home/luis/Documentos/Proyectos/klinton/Klinton_fuentes/klintonl/AYUDA/AYUDA.HTML#3.1._La_ventana_de_configuraciones <unknown program name>(12444)/ ClientApp::doIt: Creating ClientApp kioclient(12444) ClientApp::kde_open:
KUrl("file:///home/luis/Documentos/Proyectos/klinton/Klinton_fuentes/klintonl/AYUDA/AYUDA.HTML#3.1._La_ventana_de_configuraciones")

2010/8/12 Michael Van Canneyt :

Sorry for a little off-topic, but this is related: is there some cross platform way to open "mailto:"?

Regards
?ilvinas

I use the environment variable "BROWSER".

2010/8/12 Mark Morgan Lloyd :

Attached.

2010/8/12 Michael Van Canneyt :

Try making a shorter command-line:

26519 execve("/usr/lib/chromium-browser/chrome", ["/usr/lib/chromium-browser/chrome", "/home/luis/Documentos/Proyectos/"...], [/* 82 vars */] <unfinished ...>

As you can see, we can't see what the actual URL is it gets. But it definitely doesn't start with file:///

Michael.

?ilvinas Ledas wrote

Sorry for a little off-topic, but this is related: is there some cross platform way to open "mailto:"?

No, there is not yet.

Michael.

But it definitely doesn't start with file:///

That was the problem. I wonder how it worked for many years.

Thanks for all your help.

2010/8/12 Michael Van Canneyt :