+ wxUnusedVar(flags);
+
+ // set the scheme of url to http if it does not have one
+ // RR: This doesn't work if the url is just a local path
+ wxString url(urlOrig);
+ wxURI uri(url);
+ if ( !uri.HasScheme() )
+ {
+ if (wxFileExists(urlOrig))
+ url.Prepend( wxT("file://") );
+ else
+ url.Prepend(wxT("http://"));
+ }
+
+
+#if defined(__WXMSW__)
+
+#if wxUSE_IPC
+ if ( flags & wxBROWSER_NEW_WINDOW )
+ {
+ // ShellExecuteEx() opens the URL in an existing window by default so
+ // we can't use it if we need a new window
+ wxRegKey key(wxRegKey::HKCR, uri.GetScheme() + _T("\\shell\\open"));
+ if ( !key.Exists() )
+ {
+ // try default browser, it must be registered at least for http URLs
+ key.SetName(wxRegKey::HKCR, _T("http\\shell\\open"));
+ }
+
+ if ( key.Exists() )
+ {
+ wxRegKey keyDDE(key, wxT("DDEExec"));
+ if ( keyDDE.Exists() )
+ {
+ // we only know the syntax of WWW_OpenURL DDE request for IE,
+ // optimistically assume that all other browsers are compatible
+ // with it
+ static const wxChar *TOPIC_OPEN_URL = wxT("WWW_OpenURL");
+ wxString ddeCmd;
+ wxRegKey keyTopic(keyDDE, wxT("topic"));
+ bool ok = keyTopic.Exists() &&
+ keyTopic.QueryDefaultValue() == TOPIC_OPEN_URL;
+ if ( ok )
+ {
+ ddeCmd = keyDDE.QueryDefaultValue();
+ ok = !ddeCmd.empty();
+ }
+
+ if ( ok )
+ {
+ // for WWW_OpenURL, the index of the window to open the URL
+ // in is -1 (meaning "current") by default, replace it with
+ // 0 which means "new" (see KB article 160957)
+ ok = ddeCmd.Replace(wxT("-1"), wxT("0"),
+ false /* only first occurrence */) == 1;
+ }
+
+ if ( ok )
+ {
+ // and also replace the parameters: the topic should
+ // contain a placeholder for the URL
+ ok = ddeCmd.Replace(wxT("%1"), url, false) == 1;
+ }
+
+ if ( ok )
+ {
+ // try to send it the DDE request now but ignore the errors
+ wxLogNull noLog;
+
+ const wxString ddeServer = wxRegKey(keyDDE, wxT("application"));
+ if ( wxExecuteDDE(ddeServer, TOPIC_OPEN_URL, ddeCmd) )
+ return true;
+
+ // this is not necessarily an error: maybe browser is
+ // simply not running, but no matter, in any case we're
+ // going to launch it using ShellExecuteEx() below now and
+ // we shouldn't try to open a new window if we open a new
+ // browser anyhow
+ }
+ }
+ }
+ }
+#endif // wxUSE_IPC
+
+ WinStruct<SHELLEXECUTEINFO> sei;
+ sei.lpFile = url.c_str();
+ sei.lpVerb = _T("open");
+ sei.nShow = SW_SHOWNORMAL;
+ sei.fMask = SEE_MASK_FLAG_NO_UI; // we give error message ourselves
+
+ ::ShellExecuteEx(&sei);
+
+ const INT_PTR nResult = (INT_PTR)sei.hInstApp;
+
+ // Firefox returns file not found for some reason, so make an exception
+ // for it
+ if ( nResult > 32 || nResult == SE_ERR_FNF )
+ {
+#ifdef __WXDEBUG__
+ // Log something if SE_ERR_FNF happens
+ if ( nResult == SE_ERR_FNF )
+ wxLogDebug(wxT("SE_ERR_FNF from ShellExecute -- maybe FireFox?"));
+#endif // __WXDEBUG__
+ return true;
+ }
+#elif defined(__WXCOCOA__)
+ // NOTE: We need to call the real implementation from src/cocoa/utils.mm
+ // because the code must use Objective-C features.
+ return wxCocoaLaunchDefaultBrowser(url, flags);
+#elif defined(__WXMAC__) && !defined(__WXOSX_IPHONE__)
+ wxCFRef< CFURLRef > curl( CFURLCreateWithString( kCFAllocatorDefault,
+ wxCFStringRef( url ), NULL ) );
+ OSStatus err = LSOpenCFURLRef( curl , NULL );
+
+ if (err == noErr)
+ {
+ return true;
+ }
+ else
+ {
+ wxLogDebug(wxT("Browser Launch error %d"), (int) err);
+ return false;
+ }
+#else
+ // (non-Mac, non-MSW)
+
+#ifdef __UNIX__
+
+ // Our best best is to use xdg-open from freedesktop.org cross-desktop
+ // compatibility suite xdg-utils
+ // (see http://portland.freedesktop.org/wiki/) -- this is installed on
+ // most modern distributions and may be tweaked by them to handle
+ // distribution specifics. Only if that fails, try to find the right
+ // browser ourselves.
+ wxString path, xdg_open;
+ if ( wxGetEnv("PATH", &path) &&
+ wxFindFileInPath(&xdg_open, path, "xdg-open") )
+ {
+ if ( wxExecute(xdg_open + " " + url) )
+ return true;
+ }
+
+ wxString desktop = wxTheApp->GetTraits()->GetDesktopEnvironment();
+
+ // GNOME and KDE desktops have some applications which should be always installed
+ // together with their main parts, which give us the
+ if (desktop == wxT("GNOME"))
+ {
+ wxArrayString errors;
+ wxArrayString output;
+
+ // gconf will tell us the path of the application to use as browser
+ long res = wxExecute( wxT("gconftool-2 --get /desktop/gnome/applications/browser/exec"),
+ output, errors, wxEXEC_NODISABLE );
+ if (res >= 0 && errors.GetCount() == 0)
+ {
+ wxString cmd = output[0];
+ cmd << _T(' ') << url;
+ if (wxExecute(cmd))
+ return true;
+ }
+ }
+ else if (desktop == wxT("KDE"))
+ {
+ // kfmclient directly opens the given URL
+ if (wxExecute(wxT("kfmclient openURL ") + url))
+ return true;
+ }
+#endif
+
+ bool ok = false;
+ wxString cmd;
+
+#if wxUSE_MIMETYPE
+ wxFileType *ft = wxTheMimeTypesManager->GetFileTypeFromExtension(_T("html"));
+ if ( ft )
+ {
+ wxString mt;
+ ft->GetMimeType(&mt);
+
+ ok = ft->GetOpenCommand(&cmd, wxFileType::MessageParameters(url));
+ delete ft;
+ }
+#endif // wxUSE_MIMETYPE
+
+ if ( !ok || cmd.empty() )
+ {
+ // fallback to checking for the BROWSER environment variable
+ cmd = wxGetenv(wxT("BROWSER"));
+ if ( !cmd.empty() )
+ cmd << _T(' ') << url;
+ }
+
+ ok = ( !cmd.empty() && wxExecute(cmd) );
+ if (ok)
+ return ok;
+
+ // no file type for HTML extension
+ wxLogError(_("No default application configured for HTML files."));
+
+#endif // !wxUSE_MIMETYPE && !__WXMSW__
+
+ wxLogSysError(_("Failed to open URL \"%s\" in default browser."),
+ url.c_str());
+
+ return false;