Think Notepad only opens files? Nope! File/Open a HTTP URL (and get the HTML response) in Notepad…
Just learned this today via JoshEinstein.com - Quick Tip – Troubleshoot broken OData response using Notepad…
Did you know you can “open” a URL in Notepad?
I’ve confirmed this works on both Windows XP (SP3) and Windows 7.
That’s pretty cool… :)
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It apparently works with ANY Windows-application. I think it's the OpenFileDialog that downloads the URL to a temporary file and passes the path of that temporary file to the application.
It works... great... thanks...
As a corollary of Tommy Carlier's theorem, it also works in Notepad++!
This is a great tip. I use UltraEdit and it works there too! I never knew about this, thanks!
hmm..pretty cool, thanks.
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