From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 13127 invoked by alias); 30 Mar 2012 19:08:24 -0000 Received: (qmail 13116 invoked by uid 22791); 30 Mar 2012 19:08:23 -0000 X-SWARE-Spam-Status: No, hits=-1.7 required=5.0 tests=AWL,BAYES_00,KHOP_THREADED,RCVD_IN_HOSTKARMA_NO,SPF_NEUTRAL X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org Received: from smtp4.epfl.ch (HELO smtp4.epfl.ch) (128.178.224.218) by sourceware.org (qpsmtpd/0.43rc1) with SMTP; Fri, 30 Mar 2012 19:08:10 +0000 Received: (qmail 9790 invoked by uid 107); 30 Mar 2012 19:08:07 -0000 Received: from sb-gw13.cs.toronto.edu (HELO [10.70.2.228]) (128.100.3.13) (authenticated) by smtp4.epfl.ch (AngelmatoPhylax SMTP proxy) with ESMTPA; Fri, 30 Mar 2012 21:08:07 +0200 Message-ID: <4F760497.2050504@cs.utoronto.ca> Date: Fri, 30 Mar 2012 19:08:00 -0000 From: Ryan Johnson User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; WOW64; rv:11.0) Gecko/20120327 Thunderbird/11.0.1 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: cygwin@cygwin.com Subject: Re: cygstart doesn't handle question marks in mailto URLs References: <4F75B4D7.8060407@cornell.edu> <4F75B89A.8050301@cs.utoronto.ca> <20120330151432.GR30721@calimero.vinschen.de> <4F75D990.9030706@cs.utoronto.ca> <4F75F2D7.8090705@cornell.edu> In-Reply-To: <4F75F2D7.8090705@cornell.edu> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit 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/msg00828.txt.bz2 On 30/03/2012 1:52 PM, Ken Brown wrote: > On 3/30/2012 12:04 PM, Ryan Johnson wrote: >> On 30/03/2012 11:14 AM, Corinna Vinschen wrote: >>> On Mar 30 09:43, Ryan Johnson wrote: >>>> On 30/03/2012 9:27 AM, Ken Brown wrote: >>>>> 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? >>>> I suspect a bug in the way cygwin1.dll handles conversion from unix- >>>> to windows-style paths. >>> http://cygwin.com/acronyms/#IAFNAB >>> >>> http://cygwin.com/cygwin-ug-net/using-specialnames.html#pathnames-specialchars >>> >>> >> Makes sense... for files, but we're dealing with a URL here, so it *is* >> a bug IMO (but you're right, not a bug in cygwin's handling of >> windows-style paths). >> >> Cygstart knows it's dealing with a URL. > > Actually, it doesn't, and that's the problem. Here's the relevant > code in cygstart.c: > > /* Start a program, or open a file or URL, using Cygwin POSIX paths */ > static int > cygStart (const char *aPath, const wchar_t * action, > const wchar_t * args, const char *workDir, > int show, StartFlags startFlags) > [...] > /* Convert file path from POSIX to Windows, unless it looks like a > URL */ > if (!strstr (aPath, "://")) > > Chuck, what would you think of changing this so that cygstart would > recognize `mailto:' URLs? It would also be useful if cygstart could > learn to handle `file://' URLs involving POSIX paths. Interesting... I expected it was doing strchr(aPath, ':') to detect URLS. Given that ':' "special" for both Windows paths and URLS, why not just call strchr(aPath, ':') ? Then we'd catch ftp, **http, mailto, etc. all in one fell swoop. Whether to make "file:" (or "file://") a special case is technically orthogonal (but probably a good idea). **BTW, it turns out that Windows and Firefox both do the right thing with `http:www.cygwin.com' Ryan -- 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