Command line OmniWeb not like Netscape or Mosaic

[Dan Grillo]

Jeff Hallgren writes:
>         I'm trying to interface OmniWeb to a new security tool that just
> became available :)). This tool wants to use either netscape or mosaic... I'm
> trying to do the same thing via OmniWeb.app/openURL but apparently the tool
> is expecting the call to OminWeb.app/openURL to wait until the browser
> terminates at which point the tools server portion terminates. I can re-write
> it a bit but, the tools server then has to be terminated manually. Is there
> an option to openURL that would cause it to wait on the browser?

The fast solution:

Make a shell script called Mosaic.  Put it in your bin.

#!/bin/sh

echo "run OmniWeb as root and open url $@"
echo -n "hit return to quit your favorite security program: "
read a


Also edit perl/html.pl, sub process_html_request, and after
        ($HTML_CWD = "file:$script") =~ s/\/[^\/]*$//;

add

        $HTML_CWD="/$HTML_CWD";
        $script="/$script";


				--Dan

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