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Bonjour,
Running Dropbox (but this may be true for many other applications!) I was getting this error message when the menu entry of the system icon "Run the Dropbox web site" was clicked:

<?xml version="1.0"?>
<env:Envelope xmlns:env="http://www.w3.org/2001/12/soap-envelope"><env:Body xmlns:rox="http://rox.sourceforge.net/SOAP/ROX-Filer"><env:Fault xmlns:rpc="http://www.w3.org/2001/12/soap-rpc" xmlns:env="http://www.w3.org/2001/12/soap-envelope ... 2b87a65332 not found</faultstring></env:Fault></env:Body></env:Envelope>

jamesbond found a solution to this issue while modifying/adding lines into Jemimah's xdg-open.
Choice A: Choice B: NOTE: $DEFAULTBROWSER, or /usr/local/bin/defaultbrowser, or defaulthandler, etc, may be chosen, whichever works best for many puplets.

While I'm at it:
In the original Woof-CE Jemimah's script (https://github.com/puppylinux-woof-CE/w ... n/xdg-open) it seems there is an anomaly:

#!/bin/sh
#this script created by Jemimah. see: http://murga-linux.com/puppy/viewtopic. ... &start=150
#110115 xdg-open used to be a symlink to defaulthandler.

#!/bin/bash
[...]

Cordialement.

Bonjour, Argolance.

I am unclear about the type of feedback you wish to have on the above?

TIA. BFN.

I played with xdg-open once.
Here http://www.murga-linux.com/puppy/viewtopic.php?t=101776
It was just for opening .magnet files in transmission.

The xdg-open in puppy is simple, in fatdog it's slightly bigger, in Ubuntu it went all over my head (some 600 lines of scripting).

But I think you can take a look at Fatdog's script.

While working together with Argolance to troubleshoot his dropbox app (see here: http://www.murga-linux.com/puppy/viewto ... 095#948095), we found that dropbox use xdg-open to launch its URL; and Puppy version of xdg-open fails to open a URL with the pattern "file:///some/local/file.html#anchor" (note that "file:///some/local/file.html" works, but "file:///some/local/file.html#anchor").

We traced the problem to the fact that xdg-open uses Rox to do open the URL; and Rox does not support anchors, so xdg-open fails.

The solution posted above is to improve the situation and make xdg-open able to open a local file with anchors. It's basically either:
a) drop the anchor, before passing the URL, or
b) Use $DEFAULTBROWSER to handle URL, instead of Rox.

The xdg-open in Woof-CE is old, and perhaps its time to be revisited. Hence this suggestion.

Hello JamesBond, Argolance and all.

On my Puppy, < echo $DEFAULTBROWSER > refers to nothing useful
("exec", actually).

So I think I'll use < defaultbrowser > instead. I can, no?

The 2nd crunch-bang line < #!/bin/bash > is probably a leftover of
something else or an oversight, and can be safely removed.

IHTH. BFN.

Bonjour,
Thank you jamesbond for giving precisions about the reason of this thread. You did it better than I ever could!
Sorry musher0, I was busy this week and in a hurry: I admit it was a little bit "short"!

musher0 wrote:On my Puppy, < echo $DEFAULTBROWSER > refers to nothing useful

Not sure, but I think this is automatically updated when any installed browser is set as default browser using defaults-chooser.

So I think I'll use < defaultbrowser > instead. I can, no?

It is what I have done in the MyDbox script
Now, Dropbox is fully functional!

Thanks drunkjedi for your note.

Cordialement.