From: Ryan Johnson <ryan.johnson@cs.utoronto.ca>
To: cygwin@cygwin.com
Subject: Re: Open URLs with # using cygstart.exe
Date: Fri, 13 Jul 2012 13:21:00 -0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <500020DA.5040008@cs.utoronto.ca> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <50002053.4050706@cs.utoronto.ca>
On 13/07/2012 9:19 AM, Ryan Johnson wrote:
> Cygstart does not actually parse general URIs. For a long time it had
> a special case that tested explicitly for `http:', and recently added
> `mailto:' after a similar issue arose [1]. Ironically, most URIs seem
> to work precisely because cygstart *doesn't* know what to do with them
> and passes them along as-is, giving Windows a chance to do the right
> thing.
Actually, you can probably ignore this and go with what Adam posted...
Ryan
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2012-07-13 13:21 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 13+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2012-07-13 12:06 Alexander Konovalov
2012-07-13 12:27 ` Csaba Raduly
2012-07-13 12:38 ` Dima Pasechnik
2012-07-13 13:03 ` Alexander Konovalov
2012-07-13 13:19 ` Ryan Johnson
2012-07-13 13:21 ` Ryan Johnson [this message]
2012-07-14 7:25 ` Dima Pasechnik
2012-07-13 14:45 ` Dima Pasechnik
2012-07-14 2:05 ` Andrey Repin
2012-07-14 2:38 ` Ken Brown
2012-07-13 13:14 ` Adam Dinwoodie
2012-07-13 15:33 ` Earnie Boyd
2012-07-13 15:37 ` Eric Blake
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