Problem creating a shorcut

[Mike Driscoll]

On May 16, 5:44 am, Wolfgang Draxinger <wdraxin... at darkstargames.de>
wrote:
> Mike Driscoll wrote:
> > Hi,
>
> > I've had this niggling issue from time to time. I want to
> > create a shortcut on the user's desktop to a website that
> > specifically loads Firefox even if Firefox is not the default
> > browser.
>
> > I usually use COM as it allows very specific settings of the
> > shortcut, such as the Working Directory and the Target Path.
> > However, the following will not work for some reason:
>
> > <code>
>
> > import win32com.client
> > import winshell
>
> > shell = win32com.client.Dispatch('WScript.Shell')
> > userDesktop = winshell.desktop()
>
> > shortcut = shell.CreateShortCut(userDesktop +
> > '\\MyShortcut.lnk') shortcut.Targetpath = r'"C:\Program
> > Files\Mozilla Firefox\firefox.exe"
> > https:\www.myCompanyWebsite.com\auth\preauth.php'
> > shortcut.WorkingDirectory = r'C:\Program Files\Mozilla Firefox'
> > shortcut.save()
>
> > </code>
>
> > This creates the following target path (which doesn't work):
>
> > "C:\"C:\Program Files\Mozilla Firefox\firefox.exe" https:
> > \www.myCompanyWebsite.com\auth\preauth.php"
>
> > If I leave the website off, it works. If I leave the path to
> > Firefox out, it works too. Is there another method I can use
> > other than creating the shortcut by hand and using the shutil
> > module?
>
> > Thank you for any ideas.
>
> I see four problems:
>
> 1) you should not hardcode the backslashes ('\'), instead use
> os.sep for it.
>
> 2) In URIs there are no backslashes, only forward slashes. You
> coded
>
> https:\...
>
> which is _WRONG_. URIs are <protocoll>://<host>/<resource>, where
> for some protocolls <host> is empty (file protocoll e.g.).


That was an accident...my original code was correct, but I stupidly
decided to generalize my website's name and put the wrong slashes in.


>
> 3) You assume, that Firefox is always installed at C:\Program
> Files\Mozilla Firefox\firefox.exe
> However the path largely differs from system to system. On *nix
> systems you normally have all programs in $PATH, so a non full
> qualified path would be sufficient. On Windows this works, too,
> _IF_ the installation directory of the to be used application
> get's added to the PATH environment variable.
>


I don't assume it at all. At my place of business, that's where
Firefox is. If it's not installed there when the user logs in, one of
my scripts installs it automatically.


> Wolfgang Draxinger
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