1url_handler.pl(1)  Spawn appropriate viewer for a given URL  url_handler.pl(1)
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NAME

6       url_handler.pl - Spawn appropriate viewer for a given URL
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SYNOPSIS

9       url_handler.pl URL
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DESCRIPTION

12       url_handler.pl takes an URL as argument and spawns the first executable
13       viewer found in either $BROWSER_SCHEME or $BROWSER.
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ENVIRONMENT

16       $BROWSER_SCHEME
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18       The user's preferred utility to browse URLs of type SCHEME. May
19       actually consist of a sequence of colon-separated browser commands to
20       be tried in order until one succeeds. If a command part contains %s,
21       the URL is substituted there, otherwise the browser command is simply
22       called with the URL as its last argument. %% is replaced by a single
23       percent sign (%), and %c is replaced by a colon (:).  Examples:
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25       $BROWSER_FTP="wget:ncftp"
26       $BROWSER_GOPHER="lynx:links"
27       $BROWSER_MAILTO="mutt:pine -url"
28       $BROWSER_NEWS="lynx"
29       $BROWSER_NNTP="lynx"
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31       $BROWSER
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33       The user's preferred utility to browse URLs for which there is no
34       special viewer defined via $BROWSER_SCHEME. Again it may actually
35       consist of a sequence of colon-separated browser commands to be tried
36       in order until one succeeds. If a command part contains %s, the URL is
37       substituted there, otherwise the browser command is simply called with
38       the URL as its last argument. %% is replaced by a single percent sign
39       (%), and %c is replaced by a colon (:).  Examples:
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41       $BROWSER="firefox -a firefox -remote
42       openURL\(%s\):opera:konqueror:links2 -g:lynx:w3m"
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SECURITY

45       url_handler.pl was designed to work together with tin(1) which only
46       issues shell escaped absolute URLs thus url_handler.pl does not try
47       hard to shell escape its input nor does it convert relative URLs into
48       absolute ones! If you use url_handler.pl from other applications be
49       sure to at least shell escape its input!
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AUTHOR

52       Urs Janssen <urs@tin.org>
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SEE ALSO

55       <http://www.catb.org/~esr/BROWSER/>
56       <http://www.dwheeler.com/browse/secure_browser.html>
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600.1.3                         January 13th, 2020             url_handler.pl(1)
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