#! /bin/sh
#
# example of how to call the appropriate viewer
# based on a script by Michael Elkins <me@cs.hmc.edu>
# 2001-01-31 <urs@tin.org>
#
# URLs must start with a scheme and shell metas must be allready quoted
# (tin doesn't recognize URLs without a scheme and it quotes the metas)
#
# TODO: check $BROWSER?

if test $# -ne 1; then
	echo "Usage: `basename $0` URL" >&2
	exit 1
fi

url=$1
method=`echo $url | sed 's,^\([^:]*\):.*,\1,' | tr 'A-Z' 'a-z'`

case $method in
	http|https|gopher)
		if test x$DISPLAY = x; then
			lynx $url || exit 1
		else
			( netscape -remote openURL\($url\) || netscape $url ) || exit 1
		fi
		;;
	ftp)
		if test x$DISPLAY = x; then
			target=`echo $url | sed 's;^.*://\([^/]*\)/*\(.*\);\1:/\2;'`
			( ncftp $target || ncftp $target"/" ) || exit 1
		else
			( netscape -remote openURL\($url\) || netscape $url ) || exit 1
		fi
		;;
	mailto)
		# mutt can't handle mailto:-URLs with embedet subject
		if test `echo $url | grep -c '\?'` -eq 0 ; then
			( mutt `echo $url | sed 's;^[^:]*:\(.*\);\1;'` ) || exit 1
		else
			if test x$DISPLAY = x; then
				lynx $url || exit 1
			else
				( netscape -remote openURL\($url\) || netscape $url ) || exit 1
			fi
		fi
		;;
	news|snews)
		# usualy ment for reading news on the local server
		if test x$DISPLAY = x; then
			lynx $url || exit 1
		else
			( netscape -remote openURL\($url\) || netscape $url ) || exit 1
		fi
		;;
	nntp)
		# usualy ment for reading news via NNTP
		# needs a special case as netscape can't handle nntp-URLs
		# *sigh*
		lynx $url || exit 1
		;;
esac

exit 0