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url_handler.pl(1)  Spawn appropriate viewer for a given URL  url_handler.pl(1)

NAME
       url_handler.pl - Spawn appropriate viewer for a given URL

SYNOPSIS
       url_handler.pl URL

DESCRIPTION
       url_handler.pl takes an URL as argument and spawns the first executable
       viewer found in either $BROWSER_SCHEME or $BROWSER.

ENVIRONMENT
       $BROWSER_SCHEME
	   The user's preferred utility to browse URLs of tye SCHEME. May
	   actually consist of a sequence of colon-separated browser commands
	   to be tried in order until one succeeds. If a command part contains
	   %s, the URL is substituted there, otherwise the browser command is
	   simply called with the URL as its last argument. %% is replaced by
	   a single percent sign (%), and %c is replaced by a colon (:).
	   Examples:

	   $BROWSER_FTP="wget:ncftp"
	   $BROWSER_GOPHER="lynx:links"
	   $BROWSER_MAILTO="mutt:pine -url"
	   $BROWSER_NEWS="lynx"
	   $BROWSER_NNTP="lynx"

       $BROWSER
	   The user's preferred utility to browse URLs for which there is no
	   special viewer defined via $BROWSER_SCHEME. Again it may actually
	   consist of a sequence of colon-separated browser commands to be
	   tried in order until one succeeds. If a command part contains %s,
	   the URL is substituted there, otherwise the browser command is sim‐
	   ply called with the URL as its last argument. %% is replaced by a
	   single percent sign (%), and %c is replaced by a colon (:).	Exam‐
	   ples:

	   $BROWSER="firefox -a firefox -remote openURL\(%s\):opera:kon‐
	   queror:links2 -g:lynx:w3m"

SECURITY
       url_handler.pl was designed to work together with tin(1) which only
       issues shell escaped absolute URLs thus url_handler.pl does not try
       hard to shell escape its input nor does it convert relative URLs into
       absolute ones! If you use url_handler.pl from other applications be
       sure to at least shell escaped its input!

AUTHOR
       Urs Janssen <urs@tin.org>

SEE ALSO
       http://www.catb.org/~esr/BROWSER/
       http://www.dwheeler.com/browse/secure_browser.html

0.1.0				 May 3rd, 2011		     url_handler.pl(1)

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