Bug 15462 – Safari does not behave like a normal Windoze browser (url loading via command line)

• Status: RESOLVED
• Resolution: INVALID
• Component: Platform

[Stephen Rose]

I am unsure if this is the correct place to report this, but I am going to anyway.

Safari ignores urls that have been passed via the command line, ie.

If someone executes:

 "c:\program files\safari\safari.exe" "http://www.apple.com/iphone/"

it should launch apple.com/iphone, but it does not, it ignores that and loads the homepage.

I have had no luck explaining this on the safari discussion forums, hopefully people here understand.

I ahve marked this as critical, as it basicly hinders anyone setting safari as the default browser, because there is no point, you click a link in an external app, and .... it loads the homepage.

[Alexey Proskuryakov]

This is not a WebKit issue, so it will be moved to Apple internal Radar and tracked there.

[Mark Rowe (bdash)]

<rdar://problem/5535415>

[Mark Rowe (bdash)]

Closing as INVALID as this is not a WebKit issue.

[Stephen Rose]

How do i track the progress now?

[Alexey Proskuryakov]

I believe <[e-mail]> is the address one can use for such inquiries.

Mark, I hope this isn't tracked as low priority in Radar - it should be possible to use Safari as a default browser, shouldn't it? :-)

[David Kilzer (:ddkilzer)]

(In reply to comment #5)
> Mark, I hope this isn't tracked as low priority in Radar - it should be
> possible to use Safari as a default browser, shouldn't it? :-)

This issue has already been fixed in later seeds.  See Bug 14747 Comment #5 for details on how to download them.