Dear all,

I want to open a web page in Windows (Vista or XP) using the user's default browser. I found this way to do it: Re: Perl Windows Open a Web Browser in an earlier post: 
use Win32::FileOp qw(ShellExecute);
ShellExecute("http://www.perlmonks.org");

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It works fine and quite fast actually. However, I haven't figured out a way to get the error code when things do not work as expected (e.g. when user does not have Internet connectivity).

I tried to get the error code with $^E as suggested in http://search.cpan.org/~jenda/Win32-FileOp-0.14.1/FileOp.pm but I get an undefined value in both connected and not-connected case. Is there a way around the problem or should I resort to other tools, like WWW::Mechanize, to check for connectivity?

Cheers,
Athanasia

In reply to Get error code using ShellExecute to open browser by athanasia

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