see with URL support or agnostic konqueror?

[Eric Lavarde <Eric.Lavarde@bawue.de>]

Hello,

I'm maintaining the freemind package and currently 'sensible-browser' is 
used to open links (which are always absolute, either file:/... or http, 
ftp, whatever). It works well for remote links (http etc.) but is not 
the best solution for file: links, if a true browser is behind 
sensible-browser.
'see' would be a better solution because it handles file types properly, 
but it doesn't understand URL notation and doesn't handle remote links.
konqueror would handle everything well but is not so nice for non-KDE users.

My best guess currently would be a small wrapper script that calls 'see' 
for file: links (removing the file: prefix), and 'sensible-browser' for 
all other kind of links. Not very difficult but I have the feeling this 
must have been needed by others as well.

So my questions:
- is there already an "agnostic" utility that does this kind of thing?
- would the 'mime-support' maintainer be interested in adding URL 
handling to the 'see' utility? (would this be at all a good idea?)

Thanks, Eric

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