Re: Bug: openURL on MS Windows with default browser IE

Posted by Jeremy Winston-2 on Feb 14, 2007; 7:53pm
URL: http://imagej.273.s1.nabble.com/Bug-openURL-on-MS-Windows-with-default-browser-IE-tp3699891p3699892.html

Jeremy Winston wrote:
> Hi Folks,
>      It seems that the approach taken by the openURL method
> of BrowserLauncher for MS Windows to open the default web
> browser to a URL ending in .htm or .html when the default
> browser is IE is deprecated (per MS).

Hrmmm.  Even though MS says it's deprecated, the problem
doesn't appear to exist with XP running IE7, nor, strangely,
with NT4 running IE 6.

Could folks running a different combination of MS OS and
IE versions, check to see if running

rundll32 url.dll,FileProtocolHandler http://rsb.info.nih.gov/ij/notes.html

at the command line (or Run box) generates an error, and
report back their findings?

TIA,
-Jeremy