Open URL N/O/S

Kevin Grant kmg at mac.com
Thu Jan 9 20:20:02 PST 2003


> Now I have three of these "Open URL with..." items in the Services 
> menu. I think it is time to get rid off these and replace them with a 
> generic "Open URL in Web Browser" Service that opens the selection in 
> the default browser (that would also have the additional benefit that 
> it would work with Mozilla, IE, iCab etc.)

However, not all URLs are web sites.  For example, MacTelnet has this 
kind of item in the Services menu, and it can open almost any kind of 
URL correctly, not just "telnet://".

In fact, the MacTelnet version of the Open URL service is exactly what 
you want, because if it receives an "http://" URL it *will* use your 
default web browser to handle it. :)

Kevin G.
http://homepage.mac.com/kmg/
mailto:kevin at ieee.org




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