[Bug 21601] New: ShellExecute - Open URL Fails

http://bugs.winehq.org/show_bug.cgi?id=21601

Summary: ShellExecute -  Open URL Fails
           Product: Wine
           Version: 1.1.38
          Platform: x86
               URL: http://www.secureneterm.com
        OS/Version: Linux
            Status: UNCONFIRMED
          Severity: normal
          Priority: P2
         Component: -unknown
        AssignedTo: [e-mail]
        ReportedBy: [e-mail]

When ShellExecute is called with a valid URL such as:

ShellExecute(NULL, "open", "http://www.microsoft.com", NULL, NULL,
SW_SHOWNORMAL);

The default browser IS NOT started.

This appears to be some type of DDE problem or an invalid registry settings.

[Bug 21601] ShellExecute - Open URL Fails

http://bugs.winehq.org/show_bug.cgi?id=21601

Alexander Scott-Johns  changed:

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--- Comment #1 from Alexander Scott-Johns   2010-02-05 15:47:44 ---
dup of bug 13891

[Bug 21601] ShellExecute - Open URL Fails

http://bugs.winehq.org/show_bug.cgi?id=21601

Austin English  changed:

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             Status|UNCONFIRMED                 |RESOLVED
         Resolution|                            |DUPLICATE

--- Comment #2 from Austin English   2010-02-05 16:29:13 ---
Yep, dupe.

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 13891 ***

[Bug 21601] ShellExecute - Open URL Fails

http://bugs.winehq.org/show_bug.cgi?id=21601

Austin English  changed:

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--- Comment #3 from Austin English   2010-02-05 16:29:21 ---
Closing.

[Bug 21601] ShellExecute - Open URL Fails

http://bugs.winehq.org/show_bug.cgi?id=21601

--- Comment #4 from Kenneth Robinette   2010-02-05 17:42:29 ---
(In reply to comment #3)
> Closing.

I don't think its a duplicate, however if thats what you want to believe, so be
it.

[Bug 21601] ShellExecute - Open URL Fails

http://bugs.winehq.org/show_bug.cgi?id=21601

--- Comment #5 from Alexander Scott-Johns   2010-02-05 17:50:36 ---
(In reply to comment #4)
> (In reply to comment #3)
> > Closing.
>
> I don't think its a duplicate, however if thats what you want to believe, so
> be it.

Bug 13891 is about the start command, which uses ShellExecuteEx to open files.

[Bug 21601] ShellExecute - Open URL Fails

http://bugs.winehq.org/show_bug.cgi?id=21601

--- Comment #6 from Kenneth Robinette   2010-02-05 18:58:28 ---
(In reply to comment #5)
> (In reply to comment #4)
> > (In reply to comment #3)
> > > Closing.
> >
> > I don't think its a duplicate, however if thats what you want to believe, so
> > be it.
>
> Bug 13891 is about the start command, which uses ShellExecuteEx to open files.

Its really two problems, however I have a workaround which enables my stuff to
work with the current wine releases.

Bug 13891 states that its a registry problem which can be fixed by editing the
registry and adding a %1 to HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\http\shell\open\command.

This works if ShellExecute() is called from an ansi application, but not from
unicode based applications.  The suggested patch to change main.c of
winebrowser does not work either in this case.

When you do add %1 to the HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\http\shell\open\command, and do a
ShellExecute() from a unicode application, winebrowser does start and display
the url, but you also get an error message stating "The DDE transaction could
not be completed because other DDE transactions were being processed".

The workaround is to do a ShellExecute() passing the program to start as
"winebrowser" with the URL as an argument.  This works with both ansi and
unicode applications.  This of course requires a run time detection of wine in
order to use the proper ShellExecute.

At least our applications can run correctly on all versions of Wine until the
proper fix is made to Wine itself.