194109 - Command line invocation of Mozilla's HTML source viewer

Status: RESOLVED WONTFIX

(Core Graveyard :: View Source, enhancement)

Description

[Mike Cowperthwaite]

User-Agent:       Opera/6.05 (Windows 2000; U)  [en]
Build Identifier: 

I would like to be able to launch Mozilla's HTML source viewer from an external
program, e.g. using   \path\Mozilla -viewsource (file | URL)

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:

Comment 1

[timeless]

well, today you can do
mozilla view-source:url

it'll give you a navigator window instead of a view-source window, but...

Comment 2

[Stefan Borggraefe]

Why not? Sounds like a nice idea.

Comment 3

[Doron Rosenberg (IBM)]

use view-source: urls, that is what they are meant for.

Comment 4

[Mike Cowperthwaite]

Well, OK.  There's certainly not a whiff of documentation to be found for 
"view-source URLs" anywhere.  I have been able to determine is that prepending 
"view-source:" to a browser-displayable URL will open the window, so:
   view-source:http://mozilla.org/
   view-source:file:///C:/Web/localindex.html

So to integrate this into a program that wants to call a viewer, that program 
needs to be able to concatenate strings to the command line, such as for a 
Windows machine:
   mozilla.exe view-source:file:///%1

Generally, this should be OK for geeky sorts.  I wouldn't be surprised to find 
programs out there which don't handle the concatentation required for that, but 
the one example program I have will neither handle a regular command-line 
argument.  Still, the form I was looking for is cleaner and easier to remember:
   mozilla.exe -view-source %1

Comment 5

[Mike Cowperthwaite]

Oh, one additional point:  I wanted the window to open as a View Source window.
Invoking a view-source: "URL" opens a browser window.

Given that, Doron, how about reopening this?