How to open web page in host browser on Mac OS X

[Billy T]

I'm trying to figure out how to open an html file or URL in an external (host-based) browser. From what I understand the winebrowser should do this, however I haven't been able to figure out how to configure it - have tried adding entries to the winebrowser registry keys as suggested.

Perhaps the problem is that I'm running on Mac OS X...

Anyone with experience or hints here?

Cheers!

[ryan woodsmall]

Perhaps the problem is that I'm running on Mac OS X...

Anyone with experience or hints here?

What are you using for your registry entries? On OS X the "open"
command may come in handy. The following commands will open a site in
your default browser, Safari and Firefox, respectively:

open http://example.com
open -a Safari http://example.com
open -a Firefox http://example.com

On OS X the full path to an app's executable is a bit odd, and you may
need to do further trickery to the passed URL. For Safari, the
executable is in:

/Applications/Safari.app/Contents/MacOS/Safari

Using the open command is probably the best bet on a Mac, but the
executable may be helpful. You could also wrap browser startup in a
shell script, throw that in your path and it would probably work as
expected.

[Billy T]

Thanks ryan. That almost worked But then I found that I had to also fix this:
http://bugs.winehq.org/show_bug.cgi?id=13891#c10
so that the urls would open from within my app. Was getting this error
err:winebrowser:get_url_from_dde Unable to retrieve URL from string L"\""
which turns out to be well known...

Thanks! Works now!