how does mozilla url passing work?

how does mozilla url passing work?

[Andrew K. Bressen]

Hi--

I love love love that when I click on a url in gnus
(in xemacs on my debian linux system) 
if I have a copy of mozilla running, 
it'll go look up that page for me.

Question: How does this work? 

The reason I'm asking is that this does not work
on my Macintosh. If anyone can tell me how to make
it work on the mac, that'd be splendid. 

The Mac is running OS X 10.2 (Jaguar), 
X11 with Orobor window manager and XEmacs all from the Fink distribution,
gnus 5.10.2, and mozilla firebird 0.6. 

I could switch it to apple's X11 if that would help.

firebird is of course compiled against aqua libs 
and is not an X11 app on the mac. I'm not sure if 
it could be made to compile against X libs on the mac,
but I suspect it wouldn't be easy. 

  --tia
  --akb

Re: how does mozilla url passing work?

[David Hanak]

On Tue, 30 Sep 2003, Andrew K. Bressen wrote:

> I love love love that when I click on a url in gnus
> (in xemacs on my debian linux system) 
> if I have a copy of mozilla running, 
> it'll go look up that page for me.
>
> Question: How does this work? 

mozilla -remote <command> For more info, see:

http://www.mozilla.org/unix/remote.html

Under Gnome, there is a shell script called gnome-moz-remote that also does
the same trick, you could check that out, too.

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David Hanak
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