On 11 Feb 2006 11:44:29 -0800, Paul Boddie <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Jorgen Grahn wrote: ... >> On my machines, there is One Correct Way of doing these things, and that's >> to look in the MIME support/configuration files (~/.mailcap, and so on), >> first for the user, then system-wide. Something there might tell you what >> program should handle text/html content. > > Indeed. Thanks for reminding me about mailcap/metamail - I used them in
And thanks for mentioning the real name of that mechanism! ... > import mailcap I guess I shouldn't be surprised that there is a standard module for that ... ;-) ... > Sadly, when considering my KDE desktop's default browser, inquiring the > application for HTML files yields Mozilla Firefox from my mailcap file. Yes, but that's only because you haven't configured your mailcap, right? Which might be a real problem -- most people don't touch their .mailcaps, especially those who use KDE or Gnome. Also, sometimes you want a GUI browser to open, and sometimes you want a console-based one like lynx or w3m. I guess most people who use mailcap do so because they use console-based mail readers, and thus want the HTML stuff appear inside the same terminal. Another reason this might be unsuitable for the OP. So, while I called it "The One Correct Way" above, I admit it might not be a very good way ;-) /Jorgen -- // Jorgen Grahn <grahn@ Ph'nglui mglw'nafh Cthulhu \X/ snipabacken.dyndns.org> R'lyeh wgah'nagl fhtagn! -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
