Re: multi-platform browser launch?

I'll bet firefox will respond as mozilla, so this should work.

my $linkurl = "http://www.zentara.net";

my $command = "mozilla -remote \"openURL($linkurl)\"";
if(fork() == 0){ exec ($command) }
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multi-platform browser launch? by Anonymous Monk on Apr 26, 2006 at 06:17 UTC
hi i also have same kind of problem... is there a way by which i can open a web page in default web browser of the system on which the script is being executed irrespective of platform??? i tried the win 32 code as given above #!/usr/bin/perl use Win32::Shell; Win32::Shell::Execute("open", "http://www.google.com", undef, undef +, "SW_SHOWNORMAL"); but i got the following error ... Cant locate win32/shell.pm in @INC(@INC contains:C:/perl/lib C:/perl/site/lib) at script.pl line 3. pls help!!!	[reply]
Re: multi-platform browser launch? by Marza (Vicar) on Apr 26, 2006 at 06:35 UTC
Code tags would be nice. Are you sure on that module? I can't find it on active state or cpan.	[reply]