in reply to Re: Opera + Firefox browser Shortcut for searching CPAN
in thread Opera + Firefox browser Shortcut for searching CPAN & Perldoc

Have you tested it? Accessing perldoc of a module in CPAN is done via authors directory. Hence your solution will fail.

Alternatively this is the snippet to access perldoc.com website. Applicable for both Opera and Firefox. 
http://www.perldoc.com/cgi-bin/htsearch?words=%s&restrict=perl5.8.4

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Regards,
Edward

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Re^3: Opera + Firefox browser Shortcut for searching CPAN
by PodMaster (Abbot) on Apr 13, 2005 at 09:27 UTC
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      Have you tested it?
      Yes. I have.
      In that case a modification need to be made for dbwiz's snippet (note the removed '=' sign): 
      URL=http://search.cpan.org/perldoc?%s

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      Then it'll work. Thanks for notifiying, PodMaster.
      Regards,
      Edward
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      Contrary to the search form at http://search.cpan.org, the redirection above appears to be case sensitive. E.g. 

      http://search.cpan.org/perldoc?cgi

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      fails.

      the lowliest monk

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