Hi, I am invoking Firefox, and for testing IE, from my VB program. The
instruction are of this kind:

Process.Start("IExplore.exe", Parameter)
Process.Start("Firefox.exe", Parameter)

where Parameter is a string with the path of the web page:

Parameter="C:\Documents and Settings\User\Desktop\Visual Studio
Projects\Test\bin\Html\webpage.htm"

Both the commands open correctly the respective applications. IE6 also
open the file. Firefox does NOT open the file. It opens and gives this
message:
-----------------------------
File not found
Firefox can't find the file at /C:/Documents.
* Check the file name for capitalization or other typing errors.
* Check to see if the file was moved, renamed or deleted.
Try Again
----------------------------

Could you tell me how to modify the file name string (Parameter), so
that Firefox take it correctly ? How does it expect the file name?

-Pam

pamelafluente@libero.it wrote:[color=blue]
> Hi, I am invoking Firefox, and for testing IE, from my VB program. The
> instruction are of this kind:
>
> Process.Start("IExplore.exe", Parameter)
> Process.Start("Firefox.exe", Parameter)
>
> where Parameter is a string with the path of the web page:
>
> Parameter="C:\Documents and Settings\User\Desktop\Visual Studio
> Projects\Test\bin\Html\webpage.htm"
>
> Both the commands open correctly the respective applications. IE6 also
> open the file. Firefox does NOT open the file. It opens and gives this
> message:
> -----------------------------
> File not found
> Firefox can't find the file at /C:/Documents.
> * Check the file name for capitalization or other typing errors.
> * Check to see if the file was moved, renamed or deleted.
> Try Again
> ----------------------------
>
> Could you tell me how to modify the file name string (Parameter), so
> that Firefox take it correctly ? How does it expect the file name?
>
> -Pam[/color]

Try URLEncoding the path - replacing the spaces with %20

HTH

/P.

BRAVO!!

this did it:

Try
FileName = "file:///" & FileName.Replace(" ", "%20")
System.Diagnostics.Process.Start("Firefox.exe", FileName)
Catch ex As Exception
MsgBox(ex.Message, MsgBoxStyle.Information)
End Try

Thank you verry much!!

PS
Firefox, is always more rigorous than IE, eh? !

Is any other char that, for generality, I should take care of?


-Pam

Paxton ha scritto:
[color=blue]
> pamelafluente@libero.it wrote:[color=green]
> > Hi, I am invoking Firefox, and for testing IE, from my VB program. The
> > instruction are of this kind:
> >
> > Process.Start("IExplore.exe", Parameter)
> > Process.Start("Firefox.exe", Parameter)
> >
> > where Parameter is a string with the path of the web page:
> >
> > Parameter="C:\Documents and Settings\User\Desktop\Visual Studio
> > Projects\Test\bin\Html\webpage.htm"
> >
> > Both the commands open correctly the respective applications. IE6 also
> > open the file. Firefox does NOT open the file. It opens and gives this
> > message:
> > -----------------------------
> > File not found
> > Firefox can't find the file at /C:/Documents.
> > * Check the file name for capitalization or other typing errors.
> > * Check to see if the file was moved, renamed or deleted.
> > Try Again
> > ----------------------------
> >
> > Could you tell me how to modify the file name string (Parameter), so
> > that Firefox take it correctly ? How does it expect the file name?
> >
> > -Pam[/color]
>
> Try URLEncoding the path - replacing the spaces with %20
>
> HTH
>
> /P.[/color]

If you are using dotnet, the System.Web.HttpUtility class offers a
URLEncode method you can use which will take care of all chars that
might cause problems.

/P.



pamelaflue...@libero.it wrote:[color=blue]
> BRAVO!!
>
> this did it:
>
> Try
> FileName = "file:///" & FileName.Replace(" ", "%20")
> System.Diagnostics.Process.Start("Firefox.exe", FileName)
> Catch ex As Exception
> MsgBox(ex.Message, MsgBoxStyle.Information)
> End Try
>
> Thank you verry much!!
>
> PS
> Firefox, is always more rigorous than IE, eh? !
>
> Is any other char that, for generality, I should take care of?
>
>
> -Pam
>
> Paxton ha scritto:
>[color=green]
> > pamelafluente@libero.it wrote:[color=darkred]
> > > Hi, I am invoking Firefox, and for testing IE, from my VB program. The
> > > instruction are of this kind:
> > >
> > > Process.Start("IExplore.exe", Parameter)
> > > Process.Start("Firefox.exe", Parameter)
> > >
> > > where Parameter is a string with the path of the web page:
> > >
> > > Parameter="C:\Documents and Settings\User\Desktop\Visual Studio
> > > Projects\Test\bin\Html\webpage.htm"
> > >
> > > Both the commands open correctly the respective applications. IE6 also
> > > open the file. Firefox does NOT open the file. It opens and gives this
> > > message:
> > > -----------------------------
> > > File not found
> > > Firefox can't find the file at /C:/Documents.
> > > * Check the file name for capitalization or other typing errors.
> > > * Check to see if the file was moved, renamed or deleted.
> > > Try Again
> > > ----------------------------
> > >
> > > Could you tell me how to modify the file name string (Parameter), so
> > > that Firefox take it correctly ? How does it expect the file name?
> > >
> > > -Pam[/color]
> >
> > Try URLEncoding the path - replacing the spaces with %20
> >
> > HTH
> >
> > /P.[/color][/color]

I am doing a Windows Application, not a web application.
If I use:

FileName = System.Web.HttpUtility.HtmlEncode(FileName)

I get this compiler error: 'HttpUtility' is not a member of 'Web'

I am not sure whether the above can be used in Windows application
(??). It would seems that is related with the presence of a web server.
I am not sure but I am afraid I have to code the filtering manually.

Is there a place with a full list of all need to be filtered so that I
can do it?

I could do something on the lines (perhaps a little awkward, eh?):

Dim WebSymbols As String() = New String() { _
"&", "&", _
">", ">", _
"<", "&lt;", _
...
" ", "&nbsp;", _
vbCrLf, "<br>" _
}


Function MyHtmlEncode(ByVal Text As String) As String

Dim WebText As New System.Text.StringBuilder(Text)
For i As Integer = 0 To WebSymbols.Length - 1 Step 2
WebText = WebText.Replace(WebSymbols(i), WebSymbols(i + 1))
Next i
Return WebText.ToString

End Function

In this case I would need a complete list of symbols. Any hint or
pointer?

pamelafluente@libero.it wrote:[color=blue]
> I am doing a Windows Application, not a web application.
> If I use:
>
> FileName = System.Web.HttpUtility.HtmlEncode(FileName)
>
> I get this compiler error: 'HttpUtility' is not a member of 'Web'
>
> I am not sure whether the above can be used in Windows application
> (??). It would seems that is related with the presence of a web server.
> I am not sure but I am afraid I have to code the filtering manually.
>
> Is there a place with a full list of all need to be filtered so that I
> can do it?
>
> I could do something on the lines (perhaps a little awkward, eh?):
>
> Dim WebSymbols As String() = New String() { _
> "&", "&amp;", _
> ">", "&gt;", _
> "<", "&lt;", _
> ...
> " ", "&nbsp;", _
> vbCrLf, "<br>" _
> }
>
>
> Function MyHtmlEncode(ByVal Text As String) As String
>
> Dim WebText As New System.Text.StringBuilder(Text)
> For i As Integer = 0 To WebSymbols.Length - 1 Step 2
> WebText = WebText.Replace(WebSymbols(i), WebSymbols(i + 1))
> Next i
> Return WebText.ToString
>
> End Function
>
> In this case I would need a complete list of symbols. Any hint or
> pointer?[/color]

I would have thought you could import the namespace into your project
and use its methods. I thought that was one of the main points behind
OOP in dotnet.

Alternatively, create a blank file in notepad, give it a name using all
the legal filename special characters and save it as an htm file -
something like "£$% ^&!*()_+=-.htm. Then browse to it with Firefox
and see which of the special chars it's happy with, and which ones it
encodes in the address bar.

If you want further advice/help with dotnet, one of the
microsoft.public.dotnet.framework* groups would be best. The CSS bods
of this group are probably wondering what on earth we are going on
about :-)

/P.

pamelafluente@libero.it schrieb:[color=blue]
> BRAVO!!
>
> this did it:
>
> Try
> FileName = "file:///" & FileName.Replace(" ", "%20")
> System.Diagnostics.Process.Start("Firefox.exe", FileName)
> Catch ex As Exception
> MsgBox(ex.Message, MsgBoxStyle.Information)
> End Try
>
> Thank you verry much!!
>[/color]

What's that got to do with CSS?

Yes, Christian is perfectly right!!

Actually, it's because the original question regarded essentially
Firefox.

I remember that in the past I came here a couple of times and actually
the guys here let me understand how important is Firefox in the
browser's world (where I am it is hardly known) and how important is to
make application which also support well Firefox.

I also remembered how good and helpful are the people in this group. So
having a question about Firefox, this seemed the first choice to go.
Sorry if it is turning OT.

Ah, an observation (more on topic) . I have seen that in web page we
(and hence any filter) replace " " with &nbsp; while within the command
line this doesn't work and it wants "%20". So I am just thinking that
perhaps for the the command line (file name, etc.) the replacement can
be different wrt to the html body (??) Is this so?

thank you very much

-Pam

The CSS bods[color=blue]
> of this group are probably wondering what on earth we are going on
> about :-)
>
> /P.[/color]

In <1141062047.068833.228510@e56g2000cwe.googlegroups .com>, on
02/27/2006
at 09:40 AM, pamelafluente@libero.it said:
[color=blue]
>I also remembered how good and helpful are the people in this group.[/color]

Sure, for questions about CSS. Why do you expect people to be less
helpful if you post a question to the proper group?

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