in DrRacket: > (send-url "file:///Users/spdegabrielle/hello.html?q=aaaba")
works > (send-url "file:///Applications/hello.html?q=xyz") works > (send-url "file:///Applications/Racket%20v6.1.1.5/doc/search/index.html?q=xyzzzzz") fails in bash: Miriams-MacBook-Pro-2:~ spdegabrielle$ open "file:///Users/spdegabrielle/hello.html?q=aaaa" fails I've just had a quick go at '(send-url/file ' but I cant remember how to escape the '?' S. On Thu Nov 20 2014 at 11:51:04 PM Eli Barzilay <e...@barzilay.org> wrote: > On Thu, Nov 20, 2014 at 5:22 PM, Robby Findler > <ro...@eecs.northwestern.edu> wrote: > > Ah, thanks! I see that if it is trying to load the docs that are in > > /Applications then it runs the code below, which somehow magically > > drops the query argument by the time safari gets it. It's not because > > of the space, either; when I rename "Racket v6.1.1.5" to just "r", it > > also doesn't work. But if I change the path to one in my home > > directory (just like the one you write below), then I see it works. > > > > Puzzling. It's almost like there is special handling for /Applications > > instead of /Users. > > Something that might be relevant here: on Windows, the query (?...) or > fragment (#...) bits of a URL are dropped when you run them. That's > why I made it use a "trampoline" file: it creates a small HTML file > which can open fine, and that file redirects to the full URL. > > At some point, Linux joined this with "xdg-open" not passing along these > things also, and needed a similar hack (which IIRC, wasn't done). So it > might be that OSX is doing something similar now. > > -- > ((lambda (x) (x x)) (lambda (x) (x x))) Eli Barzilay: > http://barzilay.org/ Maze is Life! >
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