Mail Archives: cygwin/2012/03/30/15:08:33
On 30/03/2012 1:52 PM, Ken Brown wrote:
> On 3/30/2012 12:04 PM, Ryan Johnson wrote:
>> On 30/03/2012 11:14 AM, Corinna Vinschen wrote:
>>> On Mar 30 09:43, Ryan Johnson wrote:
>>>> On 30/03/2012 9:27 AM, Ken Brown wrote:
>>>>> If I type `cygstart mailto:recipient?subject=subject' at a Cygwin
>>>>> bash prompt, I expect my default Windows mail program to start an
>>>>> outgoing message with `recipient' as recipient and `subject' as
>>>>> subject. (This is what happens if I type the same URL into a
>>>>> `Start Menu -> Run' box.) What happens instead is that
>>>>> `recipient?subject=subject' shows up as the recipient, with the
>>>>> question mark replaced by something unprintable, and the subject
>>>>> is blank.
>>>>>
>>>>> Is this a bug in cygstart, or am I misunderstanding something?
>>>> I suspect a bug in the way cygwin1.dll handles conversion from unix-
>>>> to windows-style paths.
>>> http://cygwin.com/acronyms/#IAFNAB
>>>
>>> http://cygwin.com/cygwin-ug-net/using-specialnames.html#pathnames-specialchars
>>>
>>>
>> Makes sense... for files, but we're dealing with a URL here, so it *is*
>> a bug IMO (but you're right, not a bug in cygwin's handling of
>> windows-style paths).
>>
>> Cygstart knows it's dealing with a URL.
>
> Actually, it doesn't, and that's the problem. Here's the relevant
> code in cygstart.c:
>
> /* Start a program, or open a file or URL, using Cygwin POSIX paths */
> static int
> cygStart (const char *aPath, const wchar_t * action,
> const wchar_t * args, const char *workDir,
> int show, StartFlags startFlags)
> [...]
> /* Convert file path from POSIX to Windows, unless it looks like a
> URL */
> if (!strstr (aPath, "://"))
>
> Chuck, what would you think of changing this so that cygstart would
> recognize `mailto:' URLs? It would also be useful if cygstart could
> learn to handle `file://' URLs involving POSIX paths.
Interesting... I expected it was doing strchr(aPath, ':') to detect URLS.
Given that ':' "special" for both Windows paths and URLS, why not just
call strchr(aPath, ':') ? Then we'd catch ftp, **http, mailto, etc. all
in one fell swoop. Whether to make "file:" (or "file://") a special case
is technically orthogonal (but probably a good idea).
**BTW, it turns out that Windows and Firefox both do the right thing
with `http:www.cygwin.com'
Ryan
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