LWP to open a new browser window

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Re: LWP to open a new browser window by Anonymous Monk on Apr 21, 2011 at 05:36 UTC
No, LWP is a browser building toolkit Maybe you want HTML::Display, Wx::LaunchDefaultBrowser	[reply]
Re^2: LWP to open a new browser window by Anonymous Monk on Apr 21, 2011 at 08:12 UTC
It is possible to re-implement wxLaunchDefaultBrowser in perl see, something like this (untested) Read more... (2 kB) update: although it look like someone already thought of this idea, just pick one or more of the following App::Open - Library to drive the 'openit' command line tool, a commandline interface to launching programs via MIME associations mimeopen - Open files by mimetype File::MimeInfo::Applications - Find programs to open a file by mimetype Win32::GetDefaultBrowser - Return full path to default browser on Windows systems Win32::WebBrowser - open the default web browser on Win32 MIME::Types - Definition of MIME types LWP::MediaTypes - guess media type for a file or a URL Browser::Open - open a browser in a given URL	[reply] [d/l]
Re: LWP to open a new browser window by believer (Sexton) on Apr 21, 2011 at 08:45 UTC
No, you cannot use LWP::UserAgent for that. What are you trying to achieve? Do you want to control the browser automatically, or do you want to point the end user to a webpage, or ....?	[reply]
Re: LWP to open a new browser window by suhailck (Friar) on Apr 21, 2011 at 05:55 UTC
I think you can also use Selenium	[reply]