Opening URL Problem

[Hiroyuki Komatsu]

So I will modify the codes and send them to this mail.
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Hiroyuki Komatsu

At Thu, 7 Aug 2003 13:45:38 -0500,
Ivan R. Judson wrote:
> 
> 
> Hey Hiro,
> 
> That's a fine idea, we should discuss the best way to do this. Perhaps you
> can write up a proposed solution and send it to ag-dev. We'll all look at it
> and then we can discuss it and figure out the best path forward?
> 
> -Ivan
> 
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: owner-ag-dev at mcs.anl.gov 
> > [mailto:owner-ag-dev at mcs.anl.gov] On Behalf Of Hiroyuki Komatsu
> > Sent: Thursday, August 07, 2003 1:13 PM
> > To: ag-dev at mcs.anl.gov
> > Cc: komatsu at taiyaki.org
> > Subject: Opening URL Problem
> > 
> > 
> > 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
>