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

[Danny Milosavljevic]

Hi,

Am Dienstag, den 11.04.2006, 18:27 +0200 schrieb Jannis Pohlmann:
> Hey Benny,
> 
> 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?

I'd say making the computer play guess-the-scheme is bad. By now there
are quite a lot of them (file, http, https, ftp, news, mailto, man, rtp,
rtsp, smb, ssh - just the ones I use).

Or is there a specific reason to guess?

> 
> BTW, I'm using the same mechanism for detecting URLs as Terminal does.
> 
> Regards,
> Jannis

cheers,
  Danny