open URL in default browser
open URL in default browser
- Subject: open URL in default browser
- From: Nathaniel Cunningham <email@hidden>
- Date: Fri, 27 Mar 2009 13:47:34 -0500
Greetings,
I'm new to Cocoa, and helping to port a carbon app to cocoa.
In particular, I want to be able to open an arbitrary URL in the default
internet browser, regardless of whether the URL refers to a local file that
normally opens in some other app (e.g. a jpeg image that opens in Preview),
or is a remote http: URL.
How can I (1) identify the App which constitutes user's default browser, and
(2) tell this App to open a specified URL?
[NSWorkspace openURL:] uses the default app for the URL, not necessarily a
browser.
The Carbon solution to this involved LSGetApplicationForURL(); I could use
[NSWorkspace getInfoForFile: application: type:]
but finding the default app for (say) an .html file is not the same as the
default for an http: URL (I don't want to open all URLs in someone's HTML
editor).
THanks,
Nathaniel
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