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Can I open an Internet Explorer window from RCP app? [message #665556]

Fri, 15 April 2011 05:32

Saurabh Mising name

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Registered: October 2010

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I want to set the URL and call a doPost() on the web server. Is it possible to do this from the RCP Application?.
I know that there is a Browser widget. However, this opens the browser within the RCP application. I want a new instance of IE to be separately opened.

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Re: Can I open an Internet Explorer window from RCP app? [message #665635 is a reply to message #665556]

Fri, 15 April 2011 10:22

Prakash G.R.

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Registered: July 2009

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On 15/04/11 11:02 AM, Saurabh wrote:
> I want to set the URL and call a doPost() on the web server. Is it
> possible to do this from the RCP Application?. I know that there is a
> Browser widget. However, this opens the browser within the RCP
> application. I want a new instance of IE to be separately opened.
>

Look at IWorkbenchBrowserSupport.createBrowser(). You can use the style
bits to open an external browser.

- Prakash

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Is there a way to open an external browser and set URL with post request? [message #665641 is a reply to message #665635]

Fri, 15 April 2011 10:52

Saurabh Mising name

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Registered: October 2010

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Hi Prakash, thanks for the inputs. We are able to launch the browser. We want to know how to set a URL with a post request.

Is there a way to open an external browser and set URL with post request?

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Re: Is there a way to open an external browser and set URL with post request? [message #665708 is a reply to message #665641]

Fri, 15 April 2011 14:53

Grant Gayed

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Registered: July 2009

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Hi,

Launching an external app from Eclipse uses the same mechanism as launching
an app from the command line. IE does not provide a way to specify post
args at its command line, so there isn't a way to do exactly what you want.
However IE does allow you to specify a url to initially navigate to, so if
you're not sending any sensitive data (eg.- a user password) then this could
provide a way to do what you want. For instance,
http://dev.eclipse.org/viewcvs/viewvc.cgi/org.eclipse.swt.sn ippets/src/org/eclipse/swt/snippets/Snippet330.java?view=co
demonstrates using a Browser control to send a POST request. Asking Eclipse
to launch an external browser that navigates to url
" https://bugs.eclipse.org/bugs/buglist.cgi?emailassigned_to1= 1&bug_severity=enhancement&bug_status=NEW&email1 =platform-swt-inbox&emailtype1=substring"
gives a similar result.

If this approach is not acceptable then I think your only other option is to
not launch an external IE, and instead create a Shell containing a Browser
control and any other controls that are relevant. If you did this then you
could send POST args with Browser.setUrl(String, String, String) (@since
3.6). For an example of doing this at the level of SWT see
http://dev.eclipse.org/viewcvs/index.cgi/%7Echeckout%7E/org. eclipse.swt.snippets/src/org/eclipse/swt/snippets/Snippet128 .java .

Grant

"Saurabh" <saurabh.talwalkar@siemens.com> wrote in message
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> Hi Prakash, thanks for the inputs. We are able to launch the browser. We
> want to know how to set a URL with a post request.
> Is there a way to open an external browser and set URL with post request?
>
>

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