exo-open: URIs beginning with "www." not opened in the browser

[Benedikt Meurer]

Benedikt Meurer wrote:
>>this is what I get when trying to run "exo-open www.xfce.org" (or any
>>other domain without the "http://" protocol prefix:
>>
>>  jannis at nebelsee:~$ exo-open www.sten-net.de
>>  jannis at nebelsee:~$ Error: Failed to send command: 500 command not
>>  parseable
>>
>>Are such URIs not recognized as web URLs out of principle (because a
>>command or directory "www.xfce.org" could possibly exist somewhere) or
>>is this a bug?
> 
> 
> The error message you see is from the webbrowser. Not sure what fails
> exactly. Which webbrowser do you use?

Can you try

 exo-open --launch WebBrowser www.xfce.org

and tell me if you get the same error message?

Benedikt