[Alpine-info] URL "pushing"

[Dan Mahoney, System Admin]

Hey all,

I currently run alpine on a unix shell far away from my desktop.  I do not 
run X11 on my far-away shell server.

My desktop runs OSX, but my home machine and my notebook are Windows.  My 
general attitude is that the only UI I care about is within the 
applications (firefox is generally the same across all platforms, and ssh 
apps are all the same once the session is established)

I would like to have a nice, easy way for me to open urls, especially 
obnoxiously long ones that cannot be cut-and pasted because they scroll 
off the alpine pre-viewer confirmation window.

The minimal answer: Write a url-shortener, like all the ones twitter has 
made so popular, and have the "viewer" app simply display the url on 
screen.

Some terminal apps like SecureCRT "recognize" urls and make them easily 
clickable, others like iTerm do a far worse job.

However, I'd like to have some kind of auto-launch method for this.  A 
daemon which could live on my local system, perhaps some kind of active 
bookmark.  I've also considered having alpine spawn a script which would 
ssh back into my mac (which is static and public) and run firefox with a 
command line arg, but that doesn't help once I go home from work.

Has anyone else come up with a decent solution for this, a simple 
cross-system rpc-type demon?

I would love to see some sort of standard emerge for this, with some kind 
of useful ANSI escape sequence that was rfc-defined, but that might just 
be dreaming.

-Dan Mahoney

-- 

"When I'm lost, and confused, and trying to make a U-turn, nothing annoys
me more than someone telling me to watch out for the tombstone!"

"How often does that happen, Fab?"

-David Feld & Tom Fabry, sometime in High School.

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