Re: STRPCCMD command to open a URL from Client Access Session (Scott Klement)

[Scott Klement <midrange-l@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Karl,

You have all of your slashes backwards.  They should be foreslashes ( 
the / character ) not backslashes (the \ character)

Backslashes are never used in URIs.  (Indeed, they're never used in 
file/path names _except_ on Windows.)


On 11/22/2010 12:06 PM, Karl Abbott wrote:
> Yes I did try ShellExec, and Start.
> I found that the problem is that windows is the culprit. It strips off
> the bookmark. I also found that it doesn't do this with HTTP:, so I put
> the document on the iSeries web server and changed the variable&  path
> to:
> chgvar var(&path)
> value('http:\\iseries\root\folder\helptext.html#bmark')
>
> Now it works. It's faster too.
>
> Thanks, Karl
>
> > message: 3
> > date: Sat, 20 Nov 2010 23:27:36 -0600
> > from: Scott Klement<midrange-l@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> > subject: Re: STRPCCMD command to open a URL from Client Access Session
> >
> > Have you tried ShellExec?  It might be worth a try.
> >
> > On 11/19/2010 5:18 PM, Karl Abbott wrote:
> > > I want to put the help text for my application into an HTML page and
> > > store it on the IFS.
> > >
> > > The HTML will contain anchor tags (bookmarks) that allow positioning
> the
> > > user at the appropriate section of the help text.
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > > If I go into a browser and type
> > > file:\\iseries\root\folder\helptext.html#bookmark
> > > <file:///\\iseries\root\folder\helptext.html#bookmark>    it works
> > > perfectly.
> > >
> > > But when I put this into a CL program using the following code it
> strips
> > > off the #bmark, which means it always positions to the top of the
> page.
> > > PGM
> > >
> > > DCL        VAR(&CMD) TYPE(*CHAR) LEN(98)
> > > DCL        VAR(&path) TYPE(*CHAR) LEN(50)
> > >
> > > STRPCO     PCTA(*NO)
> > > monmsg     cpf0000
> > >
> > > chgvar var(&path)
> > > value('file:\\iseries\root\folder\helptext.html#bmark')
> > > chgvar var(&cmd) value('rundll32 url.dll,FileProtocolHandler ' *bcat
> > > &path)
> > >
> > > STRPCCMD   PCCMD(&cmd) pause(*no)
> > >
> > > ENDPGM
> > >
> > > Any suggestions?
> > > Thanks, Karl
>
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