TC 9.5b9 - internet links (.url files) are not opened

[SSc]

Hi,

strange behaviour (pretty sure it still worked in b8): when double-clicking an .url file that contains a normal internet link, the link is not opened in the browser anymore. Instead a message "drive not found" ("Laufwerk nicht gefunden!" in german) is shown. Happens with 32-bit and 64-bit version.
Can anybody confirm this behaviour?

In Windows File explorer the .url files are opened without problems with double-click.

Example: content of test.url

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[InternetShortcut]
URL=https://www.spiegel.de/

best regards,
Stefan

[SSc]

Addendum: when I try to open the .url file via default action in context menu, it works fine.

https://ibb.co/mhMtG9Q

[Horst.Epp]

Not confirmed here.
I have many URL link files and all are still working fine in beta 9.

[DrShark]

I can confirm the issue with test.url with content from start post:
TC doesn't start a browser, instead it tries to connect to:

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\\www.spiegel.de\DavWWWRoot

[SSc]

Thanks Horst and DrSharks for testing!

For the sake of completeness I verified it again and installed Beta 8 and Beta 9 from scratch (clean install). And indeed I have no problems with Beta 8. Together with DrSharks confirmation this brings me to the conclusion that a change in Beta 9 has led to this effect. Of course I don't want to exclude that the effect only occurs in combination with any other setting of my environment.

The changes to Beta 9 according to history.txt do not provide any hint. But maybe Mr. Ghisler has an idea, which change in Beta 9 could explain the behavior

[Stefan2]

I can confirm the issue with test.url with content from start post:
TC doesn't start a browser, instead it tries to connect to:

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\\www.spiegel.de\DavWWWRoot

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These "DavWWWRoot" seams to be related to...

Re: Access to sharepoint folder?
Post by *ghisler(Author) » Fri Dec 06, 2019 17:18
I could auto-translate it when you paste an URL in the current path field. What do you think?

09.12.19 Added: Auto-convert sharepoint URLs
like https://intranet/projects/123/ABCD/Documents/...
to \\intranet\DavWWWRoot\projects\123\ABCD\Documents\...
in button bar, command line etc. (32/64)

[Horst.Epp]

I tested again with the test.url and I can now also confirm the problem.
But only with https URLs, http URLs are still working.

[ghisler(Author)]

Thanks for finding that, the change for sharepoint URLs shouldn't be applied to url files...

[DrShark]

13.12.19 Fixed: Opening *.url files pointing to https urls no longer worked (32/64)

Seems to be fixed in TC 9.50 beta 10: now opening sample test.url, as well as other *.url with https addresses in Total Commander open the web browser with address from url file as expected. Checked on Vista 32-bit.