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WWWBrowser(3pm) User Contributed Perl Documentation WWWBrowser(3pm)

NAME

WWWBrowser - platform independent means to start a WWW browser

SYNOPSIS

    use WWWBrowser;
    WWWBrowser::start_browser($url, -oldwindow => 1);

DESCRIPTION

start_browser($url [, %args])

Start a web browser with the specified URL. The process is started in background.

The following optional parameters are recognized:

Normally, the URL is loaded into a new window, if possible. With "-oldwindow" set to a false window, "WWWBrowser" will try to re-use a browser window.
Use (preferebly) the named browser $browser. See "CONFIGURATION" for a some browser specialities. This option will only work for unix.

CONFIGURATION

For unix, the global variable @WWWBrowser::unix_browsers can be set to a list of preferred web browsers. The following browsers are handled specially:

Text oriented browsers, which are opened in an "xterm", "kvt" or "gnome-terminal" (if running under X11). If not running under X11, then no background process is started.
Use "openURL" method of kfm.
Use "-remote" option to re-use a running netscape process, if possible.
_default_gnome
Look into the "~/.gnome/Gnome" configuration file for the right browser.
_default_kde
NYI.

The following variables can be defined globally in the main package:

$os
Short name of operating system ("win", "mac" or "unix").
&status_messages
Error handling function (instead of default "warn").

REQUIREMENTS

For Windows, the Win32Util module should be installed in the path.

AUTHOR

Slaven Rezic <slaven@rezic.de>

COPYRIGHT

Copyright (c) 1999,2000,2001,2003 Slaven Rezic. All rights reserved. This module is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the same terms as Perl itself.

SEE ALSO

Win32Util.

2022-06-28 perl v5.34.0