Hi

This is not exactly a pure perl question! (... but I wanna use it for POD-pages)

I want to start local scripts associated to a mimetype from a (local¹) HTML-page in firefox and pass arguments via query string.

In Netscape4 it was possible to do that, the complete query string (or even the complete URL?) was passed as first argument to the associated application.

And mailer can still do this, e.g. with mailto:name@domain?subject=test&body=bla all fields are properly evaluated.

Does anyone know how to define a corresponding mime-type? Couldn't figure out the necessary modifications neither in mimeTypes.rdf in firefox's profile nor in the ubuntu configs. (mailcap doesn't seem to be evaluated anymore)

Cheers Rolf

Crosspost in German: http://forum.de.selfhtml.org/?t=193542&m=1292863

¹ There is no sandbox problem!

UPDATE: Made title clearer because of possible off-topic-nature.

In reply to (OT) Firefox passing arguments via mimetype to local perl script? by LanX

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