[Bug: 21.5-b28] browse-url fails to start default browser on MSWin

[Aidan Kehoe]

 Ar an triú lá de mí Aibréan, scríobh Anders J. Munch: 

 > >From Aidan Kehoe [mailto:kehoea at parhasard.net]
 > >
 > > This works for me with -vanilla. What do you have configured 
 > > as the default Windows browser? 
 > 
 > Firefox.  
 > 
 > >What happens when you evaluate 
 > > 
 > > (mswindows-shell-execute "open" "http://www.xemacs.org/")
 > > 
 > > in *scratch* ?
 > 
 > Exactly the same error message.  Using -vanilla.

Ah, okay, just saw that in the Recent Messages: 

Process error: Running ShellExecute, "Den angivne fil blev ikke fundet.", "open", "http://xemacs.org/"

That’s “The specified file could not be found”, right? 

 > For a point of reference, if I invoke Win32 ShellExecute some other
 > way, Firefox launches as expected:
 > 
 > Python 2.4.4 (#71, Oct 18 2006, 08:34:43) [MSC v.1310 32 bit (Intel)] on win32
 > Type "help", "copyright", "credits" or "license" for more information.
 > >>> import win32api
 > >>> win32api.ShellExecute(0, "open", "http://www.xemacs.org", None, None, 0)
 > 42
 > >>> 
 > 
 > Also, if I try to open a local file using
 >   (mswindows-shell-execute "open" filename)
 > that works fine (just tried it with a few different file types).  If I
 > name a file that doesn't exist, the error message that I get is
 > exactly the same as for the URL.

Odd. 

I see weirdness with ShellExecute and Firefox on a fairly regular basis,
personally; I have a VMWare where Start -> Run http://www.google.com/ -> OK
opens the window, concurrently giving me an error message.

Can you try some of the integer values for SHOWFLAG in
#'mswindows-shell-execute, to see if they make a difference? 

Does (mswindows-shell-execute "open" "www.xemacs.org") behave differently?
It doesn’t for me, but start http://www.xemacs.org/ and start www.xemacs.org
from the command line do, so it might be worth tring. The usage string for
START mentions ASSOC and FTYPE, but they don’t seem to have anything to do
with URLs. 

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