Re: lynx-dev help on EXTERNAL

[Doug Kaufman]

On Fri, 31 Jul 1998, jaydeep desai wrote:

> Thanks, my problem was solved by changing the names of URL to http and 
> ftp.
> It appears that lynx checks for url of current link with url in EXTERNAL 
> statement, any executes corrosponding command, if match is found.
> 
> However I was misguided(?) by following lines regarding url names in 
> lynx.cfg:
> 
> # 3) To allow for new URLs to be used through lynx.
> #       URLs can be made up such as mymail: to spawn desired applications
> #       via the external command.
> #
> # EXTERNAL:<url>:<command> %s:<norestriction>
> #
> # <url> Any given URL.  This can be normal ones like ftp or http or it
> # can be one made up like mymail.
> 
> What do these lines mean? What is "made-up URL"?

This means that you can make up a new type of URL and put it in a local
HTML document as a link. When you type "." while positioned on the link,
the command specified by EXTERNAL will be executed. So you could have a
link:
<A href="mymail://localhost/filename">Send Me Mail</A>
Activating this would activate the command specified by:
EXTERNAL:mymail:command %s:TRUE
                             Doug

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