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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_SSCCHHEEMMEE or $BROWSER.


ENVIRONMENT

       $BROWSER_SSCCHHEEMMEE

       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 substituted 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="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_SSCCHHEEMMEE. Again it 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
       substituted 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="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 escaped its input!


AUTHOR

       Urs Janssen <urs@tin.org>


SEE ALSO

       http://www.catb.org/~esr/BROWSER/
       http://www.dwheeler.com/browse/secure_browser.html

0.1.2                         December 24th, 2012            url_handler.pl(1)

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