How do you open a browser to a URL using ActivePerl on Windows?

Question

In ActivePerl on Windows, how do I open a browser to some URL?

In Python, there is webbrowser.open(url) , but I can't seem to find the Perl equivalent.

Answer 1

Not sure if there's a "right" way to do it, but this should work:

my @command = ('start', $url);
system(@command);

"start" is a windows command that will use whatever the associated program is to open the argument. So as long as $url looks like a URL (make sure it starts with http(s)://), it should start up the browser.

Answer 2

I know you're using ActivePerl on Windows, but if you want portability then a system() call is probably the wrong way to go. On OS X, you could change 'start' to 'open' , but on many other systems you'll have to use another word, or may not have an equivalent command at all. This kind of thing is really OS- and browser-dependent.

Answer 3

在Windows上：从现代的Unix（即安装了xdg-utils的）开始：xdg-open