From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 21584 invoked by alias); 30 Mar 2012 13:28:59 -0000 Received: (qmail 21575 invoked by uid 22791); 30 Mar 2012 13:28:58 -0000 X-SWARE-Spam-Status: No, hits=-1.2 required=5.0 tests=AWL,BAYES_00,RCVD_IN_HOSTKARMA_NO,SPF_NEUTRAL,TW_XD,T_RP_MATCHES_RCVD X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org Received: from granite2.mail.cornell.edu (HELO authusersmtp.mail.cornell.edu) (128.253.83.142) by sourceware.org (qpsmtpd/0.43rc1) with ESMTP; Fri, 30 Mar 2012 13:28:35 +0000 Received: from [192.168.1.138] (c-50-138-232-85.hsd1.ct.comcast.net [50.138.232.85]) (authenticated bits=0) by authusersmtp.mail.cornell.edu (8.14.4/8.12.10) with ESMTP id q2UDS7rU003326 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA bits=256 verify=NOT) for ; Fri, 30 Mar 2012 09:28:08 -0400 (EDT) Message-ID: <4F75B4D7.8060407@cornell.edu> Date: Fri, 30 Mar 2012 13:28:00 -0000 From: Ken Brown User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; WOW64; rv:10.0.1) Gecko/20120208 Thunderbird/10.0.1 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: cygwin Subject: cygstart doesn't handle question marks in mailto URLs Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-PMX-CORNELL-SPAM-CHECKED: Pawpaw X-Original-Sender: kbrown@cornell.edu - Fri Mar 30 09:28:08 2012 X-IsSubscribed: yes Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@cygwin.com; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Id: List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner@cygwin.com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin@cygwin.com X-SW-Source: 2012-03/txt/msg00810.txt.bz2 If I type `cygstart mailto:recipient?subject=subject' at a Cygwin bash prompt, I expect my default Windows mail program to start an outgoing message with `recipient' as recipient and `subject' as subject. (This is what happens if I type the same URL into a `Start Menu -> Run' box.) What happens instead is that `recipient?subject=subject' shows up as the recipient, with the question mark replaced by something unprintable, and the subject is blank. Is this a bug in cygstart, or am I misunderstanding something? My reason for asking this is that I'm testing xdg-utils, which is currently available in Cygwin Ports but which will probably be added to the Cygwin distro at some point. I would like xdg-open to be able to handle mailto URLs correctly if I export BROWSER=cygstart. Ken -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple