in DrRacket:> (send-url "file:///Users/spdegabrielle/hello.html?q=aaaba")works> (send-url "file:///Applications/hello.html?q=xyz")works> (send-url "file:///Applications/Racket%20v6.1.1.5/doc/search/index.html?q=xyzzzzz")fails in bash: Miriams-MacBook-Pro-2:~ spdegabrielle$ open "file:///Users/spdegabrielle/hello.html?q=aaaa"fails I've just had a quick go at '(send-url/file ' but I cant remember how to escape the '?' S. <div class="gmail_quote">On Thu Nov 20 2014 at 11:51:04 PM Eli Barzilay <<a href="mailto:eli@barzilay.org" target="_blank">eli@barzilay.org</a>> wrote: <blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">On Thu, Nov 20, 2014 at 5:22 PM, Robby Findler <<a href="mailto:robby@eecs.northwestern.edu" target="_blank">robby@eecs.northwestern.edu</a>> wrote: > Ah, thanks! I see that if it is trying to load the docs that are in > /Applications then it runs the code below, which somehow magically > drops the query argument by the time safari gets it. It's not because > of the space, either; when I rename "Racket v6.1.1.5" to just "r", it > also doesn't work. But if I change the path to one in my home > directory (just like the one you write below), then I see it works. > > Puzzling. It's almost like there is special handling for /Applications > instead of /Users. Something that might be relevant here: on Windows, the query (?...) or fragment (#...) bits of a URL are dropped when you run them. That's why I made it use a "trampoline" file: it creates a small HTML file which can open fine, and that file redirects to the full URL. At some point, Linux joined this with "xdg-open" not passing along these things also, and needed a similar hack (which IIRC, wasn't done). So it might be that OSX is doing something similar now. -- ((lambda (x) (x x)) (lambda (x) (x x))) Eli Barzilay: <a href="http://barzilay.org/" target="_blank">http://barzilay.org/</a> Maze is Life! </blockquote></div>