Thanks:
Great thanks to David Catmull who sent me the crucial directory-resolving code. Without it, this plug-in would not work. David is an author of some interesting contextual menu plug-ins (check http://www.uncommonplace.com/).


What is this?

“Internet Location CM” is a Contextual Menu plug-in which helps managing URLs.

It can perform two operations:

— creating a new Internet Location file with URL in clipboard,
— copying an URL from Internet Location file to clipboard.

Features

— Recognition of URLs without specified protocol:

* www.apple.com is recognized as http://www.apple.com
* ftp.apple.com is recognized as ftp://ftp.apple.com
* nntp.apple.com is recognized as nntp:nntp.apple.com
* user@abracode.com is recognized as mailto:user@abracode.com
* user:my_pass@mac.com is recognized as ftp://user:my_pass@mac.com
* user@abracode.com/some_file is recognized as ftp://user@abracode.com/some_file
* recognition of HTTP protocol based on ".html", ".htm", ".shtml" or ".shtm" ending, for example:
  some.server.com/some_page.html is recognized as http://some.server.com/some_page.html

— Ignoring white chars at the beginning and end of an URL.
— Ignoring “<” and “>” at the beginning and end of an URL respectively.
— Support for hard-wrapped URLs (with unwanted line breaks) sometimes happening in e-mail.
— Filename options via setup:

* preserve URL beginning,
* preserve URL end,
* preserve URL beginning and end — it is default,
* ask for filename.
— Ability to copy URLs from multiple Internet Location files.
— Support for Info-Mac pseudo URLs like “/info-mac/game/some-cool-game.hqx”, which I always get in Info-Mac Digest. You need to set your preferred Info-Mac mirror in Internet Config or via “Internet” control panel in recent Mac OSes (in advanced user mode).

Why did I write it?

Well, I am a big fan of Internet Location files. Usually I am dragging an URL from some text onto the desktop and the Internet Location file is created by Finder automatically. But this technique sometimes does not work. Dragging a link from Netscape to the desktop starts a file transfer so I often used “Copy this Link Location” feature, then pasted the URL into “Note Pad”, then dragged it to the desktop. I am too lazy for so many operations! Now I still use “Copy this Link Location” in Netscape but then I control-click on the desktop and choose “New HTTP Location with Clipboard” and the required file is created.
There are some applications that do not support drag and drop so this plug-in also helps me in these situations.

History

1.3

— Support for Info-Mac pseudo URLs.

— Stripping of “<” and “>” at the beginning and end of an URL respectively.
— Support for hard-wrapped URLs (with line breaks) sometimes happening in e-mail.

— Filename options and About box added.
— Duplicate filename problem fix and redesign.

— URL Manager Pro crash fix.

— Initial release.