Try putting the url in ""'s
On Tue, 16 May 2000, Rodos wrote:
> I am using Pine for my email now, moving off Netscape Communicator.
>
> Things are going really well. One of the few remaining problems I have is
> invoking links to come up in netscape.
>
> I have my helper app set as
>
> /usr/bin/netscape -remote 'openURL(_URL_)'
>
> which works fine.
>
> Problem is that if the URL has a comma in it, like
>
> http://www.pcworld.com/pcwtoday/article/0,1510,16704,00.html
>
> it raises an error because the openURL has an optional second argument
> which is sperated by a comma. Netscapet gets confused because of the
> commas in the URL. I have tried a number of ways to escape it but can't.
>
> Anyone else had this problem or know how to escape the URL?
>
> Roods
>
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