solved Open URL does not open URL without https or www?

[andy4222]

I am passing URL to Open URL and the logs show that, but it does nothing. When I use it to open the URL in chrome, it opens a page with  "about:blank" as its address, with FireFox, it does nothing and the application throws an error saying "cannot open..." or something similar

 

URL1: github.com/deanishe/alfred-sublime-text

URL2: www.github.com/deanishe/alfred-sublime-text

 

Am I missing something here?

 

For now, I added 2 replace utilities and removing https://www or www. But that doesn't seem right to me

 

LOGS

`[16:11:04.139] Google Search[Fallback Search] Passing output 'github.com/deanishe/alfred-sublime-text' to Open URL`

Edited November 26, 2021 by andy4222

[deanishe]

10 hours ago, andy4222 said:

Am I missing something here?

 

It ain't a URL if it doesn't have a scheme.

 

You can type "www.google.com" into a browser's URL bar because that's specifically designed for entering web addresses and will try lots of things to convert your input into a valid URL (such as adding the scheme HTTPS:// if you don't specify one).

 

But anything that isn't a browser's URL bar (or a browser in general) expects you to provide a valid URL to begin with, which requires a scheme.

[andy4222]

Thanks

 

I wanted it work irrespective of it having a prefixes (http:// or www) or not. I'm just removing all prefixes first (if it has any) and then adding the correct scheme before calling open URL. It works now