Re: When default browser not the default browser
Re: When default browser not the default browser
- Subject: Re: When default browser not the default browser
- From: "Duane Murphy" <email@hidden>
- Date: Wed, 28 Jul 2004 10:20:12 -0700
--- At Wed, 28 Jul 2004 18:00:01 +0100, Mark Thomas wrote:
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I don't remember see where there is a list of these associations in MacOS-X,
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can you point me where this could be held ???.
I believe that it's in the info.plist of the application. There is no
central repository. Applications get to fight it out with Launch
Services. Actually I have no idea how launch services decides when
multiple apps register for the same extension.
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The problem here is that I need to send some applescript to default browser
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and so I need to know who it could be so I can find in the process list.
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Also the applescript is browser dependant :-(.
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Hmmm I'm now wondering how I could implement ICLaunchURL variant now - any
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body know
Sorry. Seems like kICHelperHttp should provide enough information to do
the right thing. Don't know for sure.
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> --- At Wed, 28 Jul 2004 15:59:49 +0100, Mark Thomas wrote:
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>> Hi,
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>> I'm getting some strange reports that on 10.2.8 with Safari 1.0 (v85.5)
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>> installed, that the default browser is "Internet Explorer". But when I do
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>> ICLaunchURL Safari is launched with the URL I specified, also what is
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>> strange if I do ICGetPref (..,kICHelperHttp, ..) I get back Internet
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>> Explorer information.
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>> Also if I check what the default browser is within Safari, it report's
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>> "Internet Explorer" so that is all very weird.
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>> Any ideas, why this could be happening, is there a work around why
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>> ICLaunchURL is starting the wrong application.
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> This is just a guess on my part, but the system also includes the ability
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> to register for handling extensions. My guess is that Safari has
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> registered .html and your URL has a .html extension. Safari will win,
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> even though IE is the default browser.
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> I imagine there is some work around involving launching IE instead of
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> IClaunchURL.
...Duane
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