system command

Applications Programming
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Hi
In my code am openeing a mozilla in Solaris with some url using sytem(url)
this is working fine for most of the urls but for url of type-

it is passing only www.abc.com?action=p to the browser & thus the url is not opening properly.
Why is system command truncating the addr on '&'. is there any alternative. exec also doesnt work

Thanks

2

Why not use exec along with the information given in this page - remote

Thats what we do.

3

as in exec(mozilla -remote "openurl(http://www.mozilla.org)" ) ????

4

Yes something like that. But not exactly that. You need to look in the man pages to see the exec family of calls. Pick the one that suits you.

5

openurl is a standard function or some user function?
I am using w3tool which is configured to open mozilla. the command tht am currntly using is system("w3tool -oa url");
as i said b4 this is opening all urls except of types "action=abc&22"

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openurl is known to mozilla. It is one of the command line parameters that mozilla accepts.

7

Hi,

U can use sysem like below to url ABC Home Page - ABC.com

system("mozilla ABC Home Page - ABC.com\&a=23");

The & has special meaning i.e, run the process in back ground, So u have to use \ to treat it as & only.

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THanks yashvant, it is working now. i replaced & with \\&.