os.startfile / webbrowser + Firefox

[Vincent Wehren]

"Matthias Huening" <mhuening at zedat.fu-berlin.de> schrieb im Newsbeitrag
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| Hi,
|
| os.startfile('http://www.python.org') works fine on WinXP with IE as
| default webbrowser. With Mozilla Firefox 0.9 as default webbrowser,
| however, I get an error. Firefox starts, the page gets loaded and then
| Python gives me an error message (Traceback below). The same is true
| for the webbowser module. Is this a Python problem or a Firefox
| problem?
|
| Matthias
|
|
| >>> import os
| >>> os.startfile('http://www.python.org')
|
| Traceback (most recent call last):
|   File "<pyshell#2>", line 1, in -toplevel-
|     os.startfile('http://www.python.org')
| WindowsError: [Errno 2] Das System kann die angegebene Datei
| nicht finden: 'http://www.python.org'
|
| >>> import webbrowser
| >>> webbrowser.open('http://www.python.org')
|
| Traceback (most recent call last):
|   File "<pyshell#4>", line 1, in -toplevel-
|     webbrowser.open('http://www.python.org')
|   File "C:\Python23\lib\webbrowser.py", line 43, in open
|     get().open(url, new, autoraise)
|   File "C:\Python23\lib\webbrowser.py", line 250, in open
|     os.startfile(url)
| WindowsError: [Errno 2] Das System kann die angegebene Datei
| nicht finden: 'http://www.python.org'
| >>>


I have the same issue with FF 0.9.1 (can't really say if I had the same
problem with prior versions - maybe I didn't notice) as default browser on
XP Prof. Not only when starting a url  from Python, but also from other
programs, yes: even when double clicking a *.url. FF loads the page just
fine, but the "invoking program" always returns an error message.

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Vincent Wehren