Re: html page mail link to webmail program

From	Ben Finney <ben+python@benfinney.id.au>
Subject	Re: html page mail link to webmail program
Date	2014-11-12 12:42 +1100
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Ethan Furman <ethan@stoneleaf.us> writes:

> Okay, the explicit Python question: Clicking on a mail link in a web
> browser can start an external program. I would like that external
> program to be a Python script that [controls an already-running web
> browser to visit a URL and operate a web application].
>
> Surely this can be done in Python.

Perhaps. I'd advise a web search for “python script web browser”, and be
prepared for also learning how your specific operating system allows
programs to control each other in separate processes.

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Ben Finney

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Re: html page mail link to webmail program Ben Finney <ben+python@benfinney.id.au> - 2014-11-12 12:42 +1100

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