NAME

Win32::WebBrowser - open the default web browser on Win32

SYNOPSIS

use Win32::WebBrowser;

open_browser('file://D:\\some\\directory\\myfile.html');

DESCRIPTION

In a separate detached process, opens the default web browser instance for the specified URL. The browser executable is determined by reading the registry.

METHODS

Only a single exported method is provided:

$result = open_browser($url)

Create a separate detached process to run the default browser for the platform (as specified in the registry) and supply the given $url to it. Returns 1 on success, undef with the error message in $@ on failure.

SEE ALSO

HTML::Display provides similar functionality for multiple OSes/platforms, but does not currently (as of version 0.39) provide a working Windows solution.

AUTHOR, COPYRIGHT, and LICENSE

Copyright(C) 2007, Dean Arnold, Presicient Corp., USA. All rights reserved.

Permission is granted to use this software under the same terms as Perl itself. Refer to the Perl Artistic license for details.