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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?? |
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 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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