Re^2: Perl Windows Open a Web Browser

Well I must not understand the code you wrote, but you gave me an idea So I tried this and it works fine

$url = 'http://127.0.0.1:8000';

system("explorer $url");
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Re^3: Perl Windows Open a Web Browser by bart (Canon) on Apr 10, 2007 at 10:47 UTC
Good idea (I hope). `start` is a "program" that comes with Windows, and that serves to start up documents in their default program. Or, as in this case, URLs. But `start` is not trouble free, on some instances of Windows, it is not a standalone program, but a built-in in `cmd`, the command line interpreter. And then, this command will not work. There have been longish discussions in the Chatterbox on how you can use `cmd /c start $url` [download] (IIRC) to get arround that limitation, but it appears to me that using `explorer.exe` to dispatch to the proper default program will work just as well. And be less of a silly hack. At least, here, it opens in MSIE7 and not in an explorer (file browse) window, I'll have to try it at home to see if it'll cooperate with Firefox too.	[reply] [d/l] [select]

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Re^3: Perl Windows Open a Web Browser
by bart (Canon) on Apr 10, 2007 at 10:47 UTC

start

But start is not trouble free, on some instances of Windows, it is not a standalone program, but a built-in in cmd, the command line interpreter. And then, this command will not work. There have been longish discussions in the Chatterbox on how you can use

cmd /c start $url
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explorer.exe

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