[ANN] webbrowser: open webpages on your default browser.

[Carlos Cobo]

Hi there gophers,

I made this a couple of weeks ago because I need something like Python's webbrowser and I forgot to publish it here.

It's very simple and but my tests were successful on two Win7 machines and an Ubuntu box. I haven't tested it on Darwin, but it should work out of the box.

Any suggestions/issues are welcome.

Here's the code: https://github.com/toqueteos/webbrowser

Here are the docs: http://godoc.org/github.com/toqueteos/webbrowser

Have a nice day,

Carlos

[minux]

On Sun, Dec 16, 2012 at 10:38 AM, Carlos Cobo <toqu...@gmail.com> wrote:

I made this a couple of weeks ago because I need something like Python's webbrowser and I forgot to publish it here.

It's very simple and but my tests were successful on two Win7 machines and an Ubuntu box. I haven't tested it on Darwin, but it should work out of the box.

i just checked the code, it should work on Darwin. 

Any suggestions/issues are welcome.

Here's the code: https://github.com/toqueteos/webbrowser

Here are the docs: http://godoc.org/github.com/toqueteos/webbrowser

Thank you. This is really useful.

And I think we should add this functionality to go-tour project too so that when the user

starts gotour, it will automatically open the browser window.

[minux]

On Sun, Dec 16, 2012 at 10:38 AM, Carlos Cobo <toqu...@gmail.com> wrote:

what are the licensing terms?

i can't find out anything about license.

[Carlos Cobo]

I'm sorry minux I forgot to add the License its too late here.

There's nothing super awesome there so I'll use MIT or public domain. I'm not a licensing guy :/ Any suggestions?

[minux]

On Sun, Dec 16, 2012 at 10:50 AM, Carlos Cobo <php...@gmail.com> wrote:

There's nothing super awesome there so I'll use MIT or public domain. I'm not a licensing guy :/ Any suggestions?

I think both are OK. In fact, as long as the license is compatible with Go's, I'm happy. :-)

[Carlos Cobo]

Ok then use it as you wish.

It's 4 AM here so dont expect it to have a proper LICENSE file until.. at least 10 hours or so I'm tired as hell.

I'll update on morning.

Goodnight list.

[Dan Kortschak]

Since Candidates is public and not protected by any locking, is there a reason for providing Register and RegisterPrep? Alternatively, would it be sensible for Candidates to be made unexported and protected by a RWMutex? (this seems like overkill, but you never know).

Nice simple package.

Dan

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[Mike Rosset]

couple of things. do you really need to call cmd and sh? can you not
just call open, xdg-open, start ?

also would it not be easier just to switch runtime.GOOS, would make
the OS abstraction run time not compile time, and avoid code
separation.

other then that cool stuff.

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[Carlos Cobo]

Hi there again,

As I promised I've updated the package repo with a MIT license.

[Carlos Cobo]

Thanks for your feedback.

I tried calling those but failed, it seems I need to do some syscall magic there. I tried to keep the package as simple as possible.

Also I never tinkered around with syscall package so, right now, I don''t know how to do that. Pull requests are welcome.

About the runtime / compile time issue:

Better to do something once than on every Open call isn't it?

Once you go get the package your OS doesn't change.

[Carlos Cobo]

Thanks for your feedback.

I didn't know how people would use `Candidates` so I went all in and provided a couple of methods for the most common operations but also made it Public so any fancy slice operations can still be used.

Using a RWMutex is a nice addtion (thanks!) and shouldn't be such an overkill because I'm using os/exec here but those fancy slice operations wouldn't be permitted. I don't know what to do. I more people to use and test the package.

[Miki Tebeka]

Nice. I wrote something similar but it uses the OS provided program to open URI's (like open in OSX)

[Carlos Cobo]

What a beautiful piece of code.

That's what my package uses but I use cmd or bash to call those. That's probably what Mike Rosset was trying to tell me but I didn't get it.

I didn't found your package on godoc.org so I created this, you should submit it there.

I've updated the webbrowser package to use your approach, I linked to your project on the README.

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I also googled a bit and it seems {free,open,net}bsd also support xdg-open so I added them too!

[Miki Tebeka]

Thanks for the link

[minux]

On Tue, Dec 18, 2012 at 1:46 AM, Miki Tebeka <miki....@gmail.com> wrote:

Nice. I wrote something similar but it uses the OS provided program to open URI's (like open in OSX)

just a note, you can't use start directly on windows.

you have to use "cmd /c start URL".

[Carlos Cobo]

Fixed! Thanks for the notice. I changed that for BSD too fast without checking.

[Miki Tebeka]

Thanks! fixed as well.

[Carlos Cobo]

Today a fellow gopher notified me that the webbrowser package didn't support URLs with ampersands.

I've updated the code to support URL's with ampersands on both Windows and Unices.

If you encounter any URLs with characters to escape please fill an issue on Github or just reply here.

Best regards,

Carlos

[Dobrosław Żybort]

Thank you for fast fix.