[issue10799] Improve webbrowser.open doc (and, someday, behavior?)

[Senthil Kumaran]

Senthil Kumaran <orsenthil at gmail.com> added the comment:

On Wed, Jan 12, 2011 at 12:23:31AM +0000, Éric Araujo wrote:
> > I thought of adding 'http://' if not present but that would
> > disable opening files in a file browser.
> 
> I think that’s a Windows-specific behavior, not a promise of the
> *web*browser module.

If being lenient with URLs which do not start with http:// is the
idea, then webbrowser module can do explicitly add that. Having a
default protocol option in the open method and we can set it to
'http'.  Many WWW browsers do that.

But, I agree that it should not be related to Windows file-browser
behavior (for whatever it's behavior is).

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