open a website in the default browser via windows

What is the best way to open a website from a unface desktop frm ... 

My method is to create a batch file(1.bat) with the text start https:\\mysite.com, and then activate an OS service which runs the created batch file.

Im thinking there may be a better method.

The problem I am having is that the website url has % in it, and the os service seems to be removing the percents in the case of opening a web site(not in the case of a dos command)...

ex: https:\\mysite.com?myvar=%1%

So, my problem is how to open a website via a uniface desktop application that contains %'s

Hi

I don't know if it is the best method but I use OS signature to start the default browser (or specific one using the name of executable file: firefox.exe, chrome.exe, ...)

activate "OS".command("cmd.exe /c start %%(VC_URL)")

And, to avoid problems with data within the querystring, you have to use $encode function. Probably, you need to handle querystring as an associative list and replace its values by an urlencoded version. 

putitem/id VA_querystring, "myvar", $encode("URL", "%1%")  ; VA_querystring = myvar=%251%25

putitem/id VA_querystring, "other", $encode("URL", "%2%") 

(Browser knows that %25 means "%")

Finally, replace list separators (·;) by &. VC_querystring = $replace(VA_querystring, 1, "·;", "&", -1), and concatenate both separated by ?

 ;result should be https://mysite.com?myvar=%251%25&other=%252%25

Regards

Thanks Luis, that was very insightful... and I got it working.

In my case I already new the encoding so I did not need that bit, but it was very interesting.

What worked for me was by calling the url direct in the activate as you did.

I am not sure why, but writing to a .bat and then running the .bat in the activate lost the % characters.