file URLs mis-handled by webbrowser

[reowen]

BPO	644246
Nosy	@jackjansen

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title = 'file URLs mis-handled by webbrowser'
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[reowen]

file:/... URLs are not handled correctly by the webbrowser module on MacOS X (MacOS X 10.2.1, Python 2.2.2). There are two problems:

• The file is opened by its creator (which might be a text editor), rather than the user's default web browser.
• Even if the creator happens to be a web browser, any #anchor portion of the URL is ignored.

This may be a MacOS X bug. The applescript "open location" also exhibits this behavior, as does the command-line "open -a icab file:/..." (where icab is just one example browser I've tried).

-- Russell

[jackjansen]

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This is indeed an Apple bug, and there is no way in which we can fix it.