### uristart will escape only single-quotes in the url parts. ### so place them inside single-quotes when creating handler pipelines. or else! ### (if you're given a bad link someone might be able to run shell commands) finger: printf "%%s\r\n" '%p' | ncat '%d' 79 | tr -d '\r' | xmessage -file - whois: whois "$(printf '%%s\\\\n' '%d' | sed 's/^..*$/-h/')" '%d' '%p' | xmessage -file - irc: x-terminal-emulator -e irssi -c '%d' -p '%P' http: firefox --new-tab '%U' DEFAULT: xdg-open '%U'