Recompiling and improving OpenURL

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In a Nutshell

This is a temporary, new version of the OpenURL command only, which improves on v7.19 (the latest available in GitHub) by adding URL decoding. Thus, OpenURL now accepts percent-encoded URLs as input, which allows its use in AmigaGuide documents. (The AmigaGuide format does not allow escaping reserved characters in links AFAIK.)

For example, the following line will correctly open in a Web browser.

> OpenURL https%3A%2F%2Fchingu.asia%2Fwiki%2Findex.php%3Ftitle%3DAmiModRadio

Just replace your previous OpenURL command with the one in this archive (and the source code). (Modified and recompiled with VBCC on 25/07/17.)

Make sure that the variable %u is inside quotes in the OpenURL preference program, tested with IBrowse 2+ and 3+.)

 

Details

OpenURL is written in C and was recompiled with Cubic IDE and vbcc.

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The last three changes:

Tygre - 2025-08-19 20:34:54  |  Tygre - 2025-08-06 11:49:46  |  Tygre - 2025-07-17 20:47:58