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Re^2: rundll32 is the right answer!

by rduke15 (Beadle)
on Apr 10, 2005 at 16:47 UTC ( [id://446422]=note: print w/replies, xml ) Need Help??


in reply to Re:
in thread How do I launch my browser in Win32 to go to a specified URL?

I came across this thread several years after the original post, and would like to confirm that this rundll32 solution works perfectly. It is also much better than the Win32::Shell solution, because it doesn't require a module install.

Before finding the answer here, I had tried extracting the http handler program from the registry and calling it directly. That seemed fine until I tried to switch my default browser to Internet Explorer. The exe lives in "C:\Program Files\Internet Explorer\iexplore.exe" so exec() cannot be used because of the spaces in the path. system() worked, but the script doesn't return until the Explorer window is closed.

I have now

my $url = $baseurl . join("&", map {"$_=$params{$_}"} keys %params); my $cmd = qq{rundll32 url.dll,FileProtocolHandler "$url"}; exec $cmd;
which works reliably.

The next question will be how to achieve the same thing on Mac and Linux to have a multi-platform script, but that will be in another thread.

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