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Bug 100730 - WebTools opens Safari to inspect WebApps, but with wrong URL
Summary: WebTools opens Safari to inspect WebApps, but with wrong URL
Status: CLOSED FIXED
Alias: None
Product: WTP Java EE Tools
Classification: WebTools
Component: jst.j2ee (show other bugs)
Version: 1.5   Edit
Hardware: Macintosh Mac OS X - Carbon (unsup.)
: P3 normal (vote)
Target Milestone: 1.5 M5   Edit
Assignee: Tim deBoer CLA
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Reported: 2005-06-19 13:32 EDT by Raphael A. Bauer CLA
Modified: 2007-01-24 14:40 EST (History)
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Description Raphael A. Bauer CLA 2005-06-19 13:32:06 EDT 
If you run an application on the server, the app is executed on tomcat, and a browser is started. As far 
as I know on windows and linux the internal webtools html browser. On Mac OS X Safari does the job as 
external process. But Safari gets a wrong adress. 
For example Safari gets as html:
file:///Users/reyez/Bibliothek/webDevelopment/eclipse/Eclipse.app/Contents/MacOS/http:/localhost:
8080/BrowserScanner
..
should be of course http:/localhost:8080//BrowserScanner
Comment 1 Raphael A. Bauer CLA 2005-06-19 13:52:08 EDT 
no.. should be of course
should be of course http://localhost:8080/BrowserScanner ..sorry..
Comment 2 Raphael A. Bauer CLA 2005-06-20 09:22:57 EDT 
1. There is an internal web browser for Mac OS X. I came from Linux where the internal web browser is 
the standard web browser viewing URLs. My wtp (M7) uses the external Safari as standard browser out 
of the box (General=>Web Browser). So you can easily switch the browser to "use internal browser" in 
the web browser setings and that's it.

2. I don't know why under Linux the internal browser is used as standard and on my Mac OS X machine 
Safari is the standard browser. (do you guys think that's consistent?). But thats no real bug. Just a little 
remark, and nothing to worry about.

3. If you deliver a default preference for Safari on Mac OS X in General=>Web Browser you should use 
the "open" command for opening Safari with an url instead of opening the core binary in the Safari 
package.

The following settings work perfectly for me in General=>Web Browser => Edit.
With that you only use one instance of Safari (The standard behaviour of all Mac Applications I ever 
saw), and you open the right URL. (no file://User/Whatever... is appended before the real URL).

Name: Safari
Location: /usr/bin/open
Parameters: -a Safari %URL%

hope that helps..
Comment 3 David Williams CLA 2005-06-21 02:21:54 EDT 
Tim, can you please comment?
Comment 4 Tim deBoer CLA 2005-06-21 08:40:17 EDT 
This is an Eclipse browser bug, not WTP. It was already fixed several weeks ago
and the fix is in recent WTP builds, so I'm going to just close this as fixed
instead of passing to Eclipse and closing it/returning as a duplicate there.
Comment 5 David Williams CLA 2006-03-04 01:04:39 EST 
This change is a bulk update of all _un_targeted, fixed, resolved bugs upon release of M5. This particular bug _might_ have been fixed earlier than M5. (Feel free to correct).
Comment 6 John Lanuti CLA 2006-11-28 15:58:50 EST 
This is part of a mass update to close out all stale WTP resolved bugs from the 1.0.x and 1.5.0 timeframe.  If you feel this bug was closed inappropriately, please reopen.

Thanks, John Lanuti