#! /bin/sh
#
# example of how to call the appropriate viewer
# based on a script by Michael Elkins <
[email protected]>
# 2001-01-31 <
[email protected]>
#
# URLs must start with a scheme and shell metas must be already quoted
# (tin doesn't recognize URLs without a scheme and it quotes the metas)
#
# TODO: check $BROWSER?
if test $# -ne 1; then
echo "Usage: `basename "$0"` URL" >&2
exit 1
fi
url="$1"
method=`echo "$url" | sed 's,^\([^:]*\):.*,\1,' | tr 'A-Z' 'a-z'`
case "$method" in
http|https|gopher)
if test x"$DISPLAY" = x; then
lynx "$url" || exit 1
else
( netscape -remote openURL\("$url"\) || netscape "$url" ) || exit 1
fi
;;
ftp)
if test x"$DISPLAY" = x; then
target=`echo "$url" | sed 's;^.*://\([^/]*\)/*\(.*\);\1:/\2;'`
( ncftp "$target" || ncftp "$target""/" ) || exit 1
else
( netscape -remote openURL\("$url"\) || netscape "$url" ) || exit 1
fi
;;
mailto)
( mutt "$url" ) || exit 1
# ( pine -url "$url" ) || exit 1
# # old mutts can't handle mailto:-URLs with embedet subject
# if test `echo "$url" | grep -c '\?'` -eq 0 ; then
# ( mutt `echo "$url" | sed 's;^[^:]*:\(.*\);\1;'` ) || exit 1
# else
# if test x"$DISPLAY" = x; then
# lynx "$url" || exit 1
# else
# ( netscape -remote openURL\("$url"\) || netscape "$url" ) || exit 1
# fi
# fi
;;
news|snews)
# usually meant for reading news on the local server
if test x"$DISPLAY" = x; then
lynx "$url" || exit 1
else
( netscape -remote openURL\("$url"\) || netscape "$url" ) || exit 1
fi
;;
nntp)
# usually meant for reading news via NNTP
# needs a special case as netscape can't handle nntp-URLs
# *sigh*
lynx "$url" || exit 1
;;
esac
exit 0
