OpenURL() function under Windows

[djrikki]

Hello,

OpenURL() does nothing on my Windows XP or Windows 7 machine. Does Windows require third-party components of some sort?

[djrikki]

Surprised to see it run under Windows 8 (!).. same behaviour.

[fingus]

Here it is working with Windows XP SP3. It opens the domain in the defined "standard browser". Maybe in your case no browser is set as "default browser" so windows do not know what to do or where to open it.

[Allanon]

Here on Windows7 and Vista no problems at all, OpenURL() runs fine

[djrikki]

Okay, I'll have to take a look.

[lazi]

I have problems on xp pro sp2 too with urlopen.
I made this workaround and it works even on win7.
("localhost" is th url)

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        x=GetVersion()
        If x.platform="Win32"
           Run (ReplaceStr(ReadRegistryKey(#HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT,"http/shell/open/command/"),"%1","localhost"))
        Else
           OpenURL("localhost")
        EndIf                        

[airsoftsoftwair]

OpenURL() is not really designed to handle URLs like "localhost". It expects http:// style URLs... if it really doesn't work with a http:// style URL, let me know

[lazi]

It seems that it isn't so trusty. Sometimes just don't work, but after a reboot it works again.
Can't see how I could be more helpful

(Of course changed to http:// style)

[airsoftsoftwair]

Hmm, strange. Is it clearly reproducable on your system? Then we could do some tests.

[lazi]

Unfortunately no. I don't use regularly windows, so can't help currently.