Opening URL Problem

[Hiroyuki Komatsu]

I found a bug that is an opening URL problem on Windows.  If an item
of venue services on a Venue Server means URL like
'http://www.accessgrid.org' and its MIME type is 'text/html' or
someting expected to be opened by IE, IE shows strange behavior.

When we click an 'open' item, IE adds "file://" prefix to the URL like
"file://http://www.accessgrid.org/" and trys to open the invalid URL.
And then, when we click 'opennew' item, IE deletes some characters
from the tail of the URL like "http://www.accessgri" and opens 2 or 3
windows.


The addition of "file://" prefix is caused by the configuration of DDE
for 'text/html' MIME type.  It is configured as ["file://%1",,-1,,,,].

Regarding the cause of the deletion, I guess that it is wxWindow's bug
as far as I read the source codes of AG, wxPython, wxWindows and DDE
documents by MicroSoft and wrote a test code.


To fix the bug, I would like us to stop using 'wxTheMimeTypesManager'
function for opening URL or specific MIME types like 'text/html',
and use another way to execute a web browser.  If it is possible, I am
thinking that I will write such codes.

Thank you,
Hiroyuki Komatsu