Open Selected Url

**sharedholder** · 01-26-2004, 01:38 PM

Great if you visit forums that do not allow "direct linking" to files !
Select a plain-text URL (not a link), then Right-click and open the page.
Automatically converts URLs like h**p:// etc into correct syntax.

OPEN SELECTED URL openselectedurl_1_readme.txt
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Summary : Handy Internet Explorer Context Menu Extension thingy
Version : 1.61 - 15 Aug 2003 (same code as v1.6 13 July 2001)
Author : JohnC - http://www.browsertool.com - [email protected]
Licence : Freeware, but I'd appreciate **** and money
Requires : Windows 95/98/98SE/NT4/2000 (see install notes re: XP)
: Internet Explorer 5 browser (should also work in IE4)
: *May* also work in IE-based browsers eg: AOL, NeoPlanet

The Bottom Line :
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No more copy / pasting of URLs from web pages !
1. Select any text on the page (doesn't need to be a link)
2. Right click with the mouse
3. Choose "Open Selected URL" from the context menu
4. A new window will popup with the new url loaded !

That sounds a bit boring - can it do anything else ?
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a. Works automatically for http:// and ftp:// and news: URLs

b. Converts "sneaky URLs" into normal ones :
hxxp or h**p to 'http'
fxp or f*p to 'ftp'
w*w or *** to 'www' (new in v1.6)
- and it's easy to add more, see Modification notes

c. Handles and fixes typographical errors in http & ftp URLs :
htp:site.com htp:/site.com htp://site.com
http:site.com http:/site.com
ftp:site.com ftp:/site.com

d. Converts \ BackSlashes to / ForwardSlashes : (eg: http:\\thesite.com is opened as http://thesite.com)

e. Strips out spaces, dots, linebreaks, tabs, table cells & other wierd characters from inside the selected text string.

f. Still works if URL is partially selected (quite easy to do accidentally &#33

eg: ://mysite.com opens http://mysite.com

g. If no '://' found in the text, it adds http:// to the start (eg: www.newsite.com is opened as http://www.newsite.com)

h. Handles private server logins both HTTP and FTP (eg: http://john:[email protected])

i. Handles email addresses, and opens default email program

j. If the selected text does not contain any . (dots) or is otherwise impossible to resolve, it will give a friendly error message rather than opening an invalid URL. The error message appears next to cursor, & disappears automatically.

k. Easily modified to accept other URL types (eg: telnet://)

l. Probably also some other stuff that I have forgotten

Webpage :

http://www.browsertool.com/downloads/index.html

Type of URLs that can be converted :

http://www.browsertool.com/downloads...l_testpage.htm

Download :

http://www.browsertool.com/downloads...edurl_1-61.zip