On 9/13/2016 10:50 AM, Nem W Schlecht wrote:
Hello all,So, I used to be able to do this in Cygwin to open a chat session (in my case, With Skype for Business aka S4B): cygstart "sip:u...@domain.com" But I noticed recently that this now fails with: Unable to start 'sipu...@domain.com': The specified file was not found. I have no idea why the colon ":" is getting converted into an a UTF F038 character. I'm also unsure of when this stopped working, since I don't use it all that often. I thought maybe having some slashes would be required, so I tried: cygstart "sip:/u...@domain.com" Error: Unable to start 'sip\u...@domain.com': The specified file was not found. And yes, I did cut-paste that and *yes* the direction of the slash *changed*. With 2 slashes, a get an error in S4B that the address doesn't exist/is incorrect. With 3 slashes, a new chat window opens! But its with user "///user@domain" (ie - non-existant user). Is the way the SIP protocol needs to be called broken or did something change in Cygwin to require slashes as a part of cygstart?
There's no code in cygstart to recognize the SIP protocol. (It wouldn't be hard to add such code, as was done a few years ago for "mailto:";. See line 598 of cygstart.c in the sources for the cygutils package.)
So cygstart treats "sip:u...@domain.com" as a file name. The funny Unicode character you see comes from Cygwin's translation to allow ":" as part of a file name. See
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