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

[Jannis Pohlmann]

On Tue, 11 Apr 2006 18:31:05 +0200
Benedikt Meurer <benedikt.meurer at unix-ag.uni-siegen.de> wrote:

> 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?

Firefox 1.5.0.1, which also behaves odd if I don't have any windows
opened:

jannis at nebelsee:~$ exo-open --launch WebBrowser www.xfce.org
jannis at nebelsee:~$ Error: No running window found

> 
> Can you try
> 
>  exo-open --launch WebBrowser www.xfce.org
> 
> and tell me if you get the same error message?

jannis at nebelsee:~$ exo-open --launch WebBrowser www.xfce.org
jannis at nebelsee:~$ Error: Failed to send command: 500 command not
parseable

Regards,
Jannis
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