Friday, July 16, 2010

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?

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I’ve confirmed this works on both Windows XP (SP3) and Windows 7.

That’s pretty cool… :)

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5 comments:

  1. Tommy CarlierFri Jul 16, 11:39:00 AM PDT

    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.

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  2. UnknownSat Jul 17, 03:50:00 AM PDT

    It works... great... thanks...

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  3. UnknownMon Jul 19, 09:41:00 AM PDT

    As a corollary of Tommy Carlier's theorem, it also works in Notepad++!

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  4. AnonymousTue Jul 20, 07:09:00 AM PDT

    This is a great tip. I use UltraEdit and it works there too! I never knew about this, thanks!

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  5. Mike AnthonyTue Jul 27, 06:08:00 AM PDT

    hmm..pretty cool, thanks.

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