Re: how to open links etc

"Benjamin Johnson" <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.comp.web.dillo.devel
Message-ID <op.v1teof0qwkf1rx@boinggloing>
On Wed, 14 Sep 2011 15:41:48 -0400, Jeremy Henty <onepoint-YprzHiG/[email protected]>  
wrote:

> Globe Trotter wrote:
>
>> Sorry to ask something perhaps really dumb, but when I click on some
>> links,  eg a  pdf  file, I  get prompted  to  save the  file. Is  it
>> possible for me  to transfer the file to  some external program (say
>> /usr/bin/epdfview)  to  open  after  download?  Does  this  have  to
>> programmed in somewhere?  Where? As a dpi? If  the latter, where are
>> the instructions?
>
> I think that  the DPI interface is perhaps  overly complicated for the
> common case  where we just want to  save the data to  a temporary file
> and  point some  external program  at  it.  Perhaps  the config  could
> specify a map from MIME types to helper functions, eg:
>
>     application/pdf = epdfview %s
>
> Thoughts?
>
> Regards,
>
> Jeremy Henty

Seconded.  The DPI itself is just an external program anyway, so we may as  
well cut out the middleman.

~Benjamin
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