X-Recipient: archive-cygwin@delorie.com X-SWARE-Spam-Status: No, hits=-1.9 required=5.0 tests=AWL,BAYES_00,KHOP_RCVD_UNTRUST,KHOP_THREADED,RCVD_IN_DNSWL_LOW,SPF_NEUTRAL,T_RP_MATCHES_RCVD X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org Message-ID: <500020DA.5040008@cs.utoronto.ca> Date: Fri, 13 Jul 2012 09:21:30 -0400 From: Ryan Johnson User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; WOW64; rv:13.0) Gecko/20120614 Thunderbird/13.0.1 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: cygwin@cygwin.com Subject: Re: Open URLs with # using cygstart.exe References: <50002053.4050706@cs.utoronto.ca> In-Reply-To: <50002053.4050706@cs.utoronto.ca> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-IsSubscribed: yes Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@cygwin.com; run by ezmlm List-Id: List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner@cygwin.com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin@cygwin.com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin@cygwin.com On 13/07/2012 9:19 AM, Ryan Johnson wrote: > Cygstart does not actually parse general URIs. For a long time it had > a special case that tested explicitly for `http:', and recently added > `mailto:' after a similar issue arose [1]. Ironically, most URIs seem > to work precisely because cygstart *doesn't* know what to do with them > and passes them along as-is, giving Windows a chance to do the right > thing. Actually, you can probably ignore this and go with what Adam posted... Ryan -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple