Opening an internet link on MacOS

[Andre]

On Windows I just use

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RunProgram("http://www.purebasic.com")

to open my favourite Internet Browser and load the given website.

On MacOS this doesn't work. What must be do to get the same result?

Thanks!

[freak]

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RunProgram("open", "http://www.purebasic.com", "")

[DoubleDutch]

I tried this, it works with URLs pointing to websites - but not to a dmg file on a website.

Any idea on how to start a download of a file on OSX?

[Shardik]

I tried this, it works with URLs pointing to websites - but not to a dmg file on a website.

Any idea on how to start a download of a file on OSX?

Have you already tried installgentoo's DownloadFromURL() example code? I have just successfully downloaded a dmg file with his code.

[DoubleDutch]

Thanks for the link, not seen it before. Will take a look.

[Fred]

ReceiveHTTPFile () should also be OK with 5.20.

[DoubleDutch]

I was thinking of something external (under the users control) that would start the download - like on Windows if you start IE with a url that contains a file it will start to download it.

I've got around it by pointing to a normal webpage, then the actual website initiates the download by doing a redirect after a couple of seconds.