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RE: cygstart doesn't handle question marks in mailto URLs
- From: "Buchbinder, Barry (NIH/NIAID) [E]" <BBuchbinder at niaid dot nih dot gov>
- To: cygwin <cygwin at cygwin dot com>
- Cc: Ken Brown <kbrown at cornell dot edu>
- Date: Fri, 30 Mar 2012 10:23:21 -0400
- Subject: RE: cygstart doesn't handle question marks in mailto URLs
- References: <4F75B4D7.8060407@cornell.edu>
Ken Brown sent the following at Friday, March 30, 2012 9:28 AM
>If I type `cygstart mailto:recipient?subject=subject' at a Cygwin bash
>prompt, I expect my default Windows mail program to start an outgoing
>message with `recipient' as recipient and `subject' as subject. (This is
>what happens if I type the same URL into a `Start Menu -> Run' box.) the
> What happens instead is that `recipient?subject=subject' shows up as
>recipient, with the question mark replaced by something unprintable, and
>the subject is blank.
>
>Is this a bug in cygstart, or am I misunderstanding something?
>
>My reason for asking this is that I'm testing xdg-utils, which is
>currently available in Cygwin Ports but which will probably be added to
>the Cygwin distro at some point. I would like xdg-open to be able to
>handle mailto URLs correctly if I export BROWSER=cygstart.
Using "&" instead of "?" does what you want with both cygstart and Windows'
"run". Remember to escape the "&" when using cygstart.
- Barry
Disclaimer: Statements made herein are not made on behalf of NIAID.
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