How to open browser on windows with url which contains metacharacters

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I tried to open browser with different ways something like this

system('start ' . $url) or use special module Browser::Open He opened url , but not all , only http://host.com/cgi-bin/nagios3/status.cgi?hostgroup=all

I forgot to notice , i need to open http://host.com/cgi-bin/nagios3/status.cgi?hostgroup=all&style=detail&servicestatustypes=28&sorttype=2&sortoption=3

Windows `perl` or cygwin `perl`? (What's `perl -V:archname`) — ikegami, Oct 30 '15 at 15:35

ikegami · Accepted Answer · 2015-10-30T16:50:30.657

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& has special meaning for the shell, so you need to place the URL in quotes.

But start has a very unusual syntax. If the first argument is in quotes, it's taken to be the title of the Window. So you need to add a dummy first argument. The solution follows:

system(qq{start "" "$url"})

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answered Oct 30 '15 at 15:43

ikegami

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Yes it's works in cmd , but in the perl script $url has to be interpolated , he's trying open the '$ulr' not the value. – Dima Candu Oct 30 '15 at 16:47
Big thanks, very helpful, how could I forget about qq. – Dima Candu Oct 30 '15 at 17:24
You could also use concatenation as you did originally. – ikegami Oct 30 '15 at 17:33

Dr.Avalanche · Answer 2 · 2015-10-30T13:12:34.667

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As per system:

use strict;
use warnings;

my $url ="http://host.com/cgi-bin/nagios3/status.cgi?hostgroup=all";
system('start', $url);

Screenshot for the code above running:

edited Oct 30 '15 at 13:12

answered Oct 30 '15 at 13:09

Dr.Avalanche

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@DimaCandu are you sure? It works, screenshot added. Maybe you have to explain what is not working. – Dr.Avalanche Oct 30 '15 at 13:13
i need to open this url http://host.com/cgi-bin/nagios3/status.cgi?hostgroup=all&style=detail&servicestatustypes=28&sorttype=2&sortoption=3 – Dima Candu Oct 30 '15 at 13:14

How to open browser on windows with url which contains metacharacters

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