url_handler.pl(1) Spawn appropriate viewer for a given URL url_handler.pl(1) NAME url_handler.pl - Spawn appropriate viewer for a given URL SYNOPSIS url_handler.pl URL DESCRIPTION url_handler.pl takes an URL as argument and spawns the first executable viewer found in either $BROWSER_SCHEME or $BROWSER. ENVIRONMENT $BROWSER_SCHEME The user's preferred utility to browse URLs of type SCHEME. May actually consist of a sequence of colon-separated browser commands to be tried in order until one succeeds. If a command part contains %s, the URL is substi- tuted there, otherwise the browser command is simply called with the URL as its last argument. %% is replaced by a single percent sign (%), and %c is replaced by a colon (:). Examples: $BROWSER_FTP="wget:ncftp" $BROWSER_GOPHER="gopher:lynx:links" $BROWSER_MAILTO="mutt:pine -url" $BROWSER_NEWS="lynx" $BROWSER_NNTP="lynx" $BROWSER The user's preferred utility to browse URLs for which there is no special viewer defined via $BROWSER_SCHEME. Again it may actually consist of a se- quence of colon-separated browser commands to be tried in order until one succeeds. If a command part contains %s, the URL is substituted there, oth- erwise the browser command is simply called with the URL as its last argu- ment. %% is replaced by a single percent sign (%), and %c is replaced by a colon (:). Examples: $BROWSER="firefox -a firefox -remote openURL\(%s\):opera:konqueror:links2 -g:lynx:w3m" SECURITY url_handler.pl was designed to work together with tin(1) which only issues shell escaped absolute URLs thus url_handler.pl does not try hard to shell escape its input nor does it convert relative URLs into absolute ones! If you use url_handler.pl from other applications be sure to at least shell escape its input! AUTHOR Urs Janssen <urs@tin.org> SEE ALSO <http://www.catb.org/~esr/BROWSER/> 0.1.3 January 13th, 2020 url_handler.pl(1)
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