FRIGN said:
> > I did not investigate issue in detail, but apparently xdg-open treats
> > all http links as "text/html". "xdg-open http:" starts Firefox.
>
> Yes, that's the problem. That's why I wrote soap in the first place.
But this is easy to work around with a shell script. Having something
like "http-helper.sh" below, you may make a simple .desktop file and:
$ xdg-mime default http-helper.desktop text/html
It is more consistent with a model, doesn't break package manager (you
have xdg-utils in dependecies for software, don't you?) and is easier to
fine-tune.
> Well, if you edit your .mailcap frequently, why not just alias a
> command like
>
> editsoap = vim /path/to/soap/config.h && make clean && make install
>
> to provide the same functionality?
Obviously, this is the way to work around the issue. Still, moving
configuration of program X to configuration file of program Y feels like
bad taste to me.
--
Dmitrij D. Czarkoff
------------------------------------------------------------------------
http-helper.sh:
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#!/bin/sh
MIME=`curl -I --max-redirs -1 -s "$@" | sed -Ee '/Content-Type/!d' -e 's/.+:
([^;]+)(;.*)?/\1/'`
if [ "$MIME" == "text/html" -o "x$MIME" == "x" ]
then
$BROWSER "$@"
else
file=`mktemp -p "${TMP:-/tmp}" xdgXXXXXX`
curl -s "$@" > $file
xdg-open $file
rm $file
fi
