Launch URL with tilde (~) [SOLVED]

[Zax]

[Please tell us the versions you use: MacOS, Firefox, and LiveCode.]

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tell application "Safari" -- or "Firefox" or "Google Chrome"
   open location "http://ssl15.ovh.net/%7EmyDomain/myPage.html"
   -- open location "http://ssl15.ovh.net/~myDomain/myPage.html" -- works also
end tell

You could try it from the Applescript Editor to see if your LC version is the culprit. If not then you could try the different browsers if there are differences.

The Applescript solution works fine with

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open location "http://ssl15.ovh.net/~myDomain/myPage.html"

but it's not applicable with Windows.

I use:

• LC 7.0 Community Edition
• OS X 10.6.8
• Firefox 45 (default browser)
• Safari 5.1.10 (latest version for OS X 10.6)

My old Safari doesn't want "%7e" in URL, it converts it to "E8B3".

[[-hh]]

1. Please try to use the *latest* stable LC 7, there were some Unicode issues with the first versions. May be this solves all problems.
2. In order to launch the URI with the *user's default browser* you may also try
(uses current system's launch services):

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-- launches myURL with user's default browser, works with LC 6/7/8
put "https://ssl15.ovh.net/~myDomain/myPage.html" into myURL
switch the platform
  case "MacOS"
    put shell ("open " & myURL) into nirvana
    break
  case "Win32"
    put shell ("explorer " & myURL) into nirvana
    break
  default
    launch URL myURL
    break
end switch

[MaxV]

What happen with this code

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put quote & "https://ssl15.ovh.net/~myDomain/myPage.html" & quote into myURL
put shell("/Applications/Firefox.app/Contents/MacOS/firefox " & myUrl)

??

If Firefox is already launched, Message Box contains:
...
If not, it works but it freezes LC.

OK, here the solution:

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put quote & "https://ssl15.ovh.net/~myDomain/myPage.html" & quote into myURL
put shell("/Applications/Firefox.app/Contents/MacOS/firefox " & myUrl & " &")

the space and & char after all permit to continue. It's a firefox on Mac behavviour.

[Zax]

1. Please try to use the *latest* stable LC 7, there were some Unicode issues with the first versions. May be this solves all problems.
2. In order to launch the URI with the *user's default browser* you may also try
(uses current system's launch services):

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-- launches myURL with user's default browser, works with LC 6/7/8
put "https://ssl15.ovh.net/~myDomain/myPage.html" into myURL
switch the platform
  case "MacOS"
    put shell ("open " & myURL) into nirvana
    break
  case "Win32"
    put shell ("explorer " & myURL) into nirvana
    break
  default
    launch URL myURL
    break
end switch

This code works! Thank you very much
BTW, I tried with the regular "launch URL" command with LC 7.14 but the problem is the same.

[[-hh]]

Aha, your post revealed a text encoding problem of LC's "launch URL" with MacOS 10.6.
You could think about reporting this as bug. Also MaxV's solution (without his workaround) shouldn't freeze LC.

Let me denote for completeness another candidate for launching an URL with the default webbrowser in case "launch URL ..." doesn't work.
This works here with several linux flavours and also on MacOS and also on Win 7/10 (if Python is installed):

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put shell("python -m webbrowser " & myURL) into nirvana

[MaxV]

... Also MaxV's solution (without his workaround) shouldn't freeze LC. ...

No without the " &" it must freeze livecode. The Firefox guideline on Mac requires to use " &", otherwise the shell freezes untill Firefox closes.