Re: mozilla -remote won't work with some urls

On Tue, 08 Nov 2005 12:16:11 PST, Louie Sherwin writes:
>I am running exmh on Solaris 9 and find that some urls will not
>launch new or connect to an existing mozilla. The problem always
>occurs when the uri string has one or more ampersands "&" 
>imbedded. The exec command seems to choke when it hits one.
>
>Anybody have any suggestions on how to fix this?

How exactly are you calling Mozilla?

I have "/usr/local/bin/exmh-mozilla.sh $xuri" as "Netscape Command",
 and exmh-mozilla.sh reads as follows:
.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.
#!/bin/bash

if `/usr/bin/firefox -remote "ping()" 1>/dev/null 2>/dev/null`; then
   exec /usr/bin/firefox -remote "openurl($1,new-tab)" &
  else
   /usr/bin/firefox &
   sleep 15
   exec /usr/bin/firefox -remote "openurl($1,new-tab)" &
  fi

exit
.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.

Note the quotes around the openurl[0] argument (mind, this is on
 Debian/i386), works for example with
 http://ask.slashdot.org/askslashdot/05/11/09/188256.shtml?tid=188&tid=141&tid=184&tid=4

0: the -remote options of Mozilla/Firefox are described on
   http://www.mozilla.org/unix/remote.html

cheers,
&rw
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