Jerry Geis Reporter
	Description • 22 years ago

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.2.1) Gecko/20021130
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.2.1) Gecko/20021130

I am using the command line -remote feature on linux no problem.

I am trying to find a way to remote control mozilla under windows.
I have found DDE and have had limited success.

My question comes from the fact that under IE using the DDE topic WWW_OpenURL
it opens the URL in the same window it does not open a new window.

Under mozilla the WWW_OpenURL always opens a new window. I am looking for
a way to open a different URL in the same window. I tried the WWW_ShowURL 
but I get errors on that as it is possible not supported? I dont know.
I have tried to find documentation on this and have not found anything.

Again, my quest is to find a way to tell mozilla to load a new url just like
the -remote does under unix. I am close but not quite.

I am not sure this is a bug - but the behaviour is different than IE so
I thought someone would like to know.

I put my code in the addition info.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
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Actual Results:  
opens a new window with WWW_OpenURL and IE does not under windows.

Expected Results:  
I was expecting a way to either use WWW_OpenURL or WWW_ShowURl from DDE
to control mozilla.

/******************************************************************
** int SendBrowserCommand(char *command_ptr)
**
**	Return TRUE on error and FALSE if no error.
** where command_ptr is something like www.cnn.com
*****************************************************************/
int SendBrowserCommand(char *command_ptr)
{
DWORD dwDDEInst = 0;
HSZ service;
HSZ topic;
HCONV hconv;

static started_service = FALSE;

/* initialize DDEML */
if(DdeInitialize(&dwDDEInst, DDECallback, CBF_FAIL_ALLSVRXACTIONS, 0) !=
DMLERR_NO_ERROR)
	{
	return(TRUE);
	}

/* initiate a conversation */
//service = DdeCreateStringHandle(dwDDEInst, "IExplore", CP_WINANSI);
service = DdeCreateStringHandle(dwDDEInst, "mozilla", CP_WINANSI);
topic = DdeCreateStringHandle(dwDDEInst, "WWW_OpenURL", CP_WINANSI);
hconv = DdeConnect(dwDDEInst, service, topic, NULL);

DdeFreeStringHandle(dwDDEInst, service);
DdeFreeStringHandle(dwDDEInst, topic);

if(!hconv)
	{
	return(TRUE);
	}

// possible use and XTYP_REQUEST and XTP_EXECUTE
DdeClientTransaction((void *)command_ptr, (DWORD) ascii_strlen(command_ptr),
hconv, 0, 0, XTYP_EXECUTE, 5000, NULL);

DdeDisconnect(hconv);
DdeUninitialize(dwDDEInst);
return(FALSE);

	Christopher Blizzard (:blizzard)
	Comment 1 • 22 years ago

Over to rods

	Boris Zbarsky [:bzbarsky]
	Comment 2 • 22 years ago

I believe this has been changed to open in an existing window since 1.2.1...

	timeless
	Comment 3 • 22 years ago

.

	timeless
	Comment 4 • 22 years ago

.

	timeless
	Comment 5 • 22 years ago

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 92156 ***