BinaryEye doesn't recognise a URL

[SpitFire-666]

The following QR is for a URL but BE doesn't know what to do with it:

[markusfisch]

Well, this is not a URL. A URL requires a scheme, which is why BinaryEye doesn't recognize it (which is done with this RegEx, for the interested reader).

I know this is quite technical, and I understand why you would expect this to be recognized as a URL. But unfortunately, mapping arbitrary strings is not trivial. Any string that contains dots or slashes would become a URL.

[SpitFire-666]

@markusfisch fair enough. How about an additional option so the user could throw the code at the browser? Eg "try opening with browser" or "treat this as a URL" in addition to the Search Engine prompts (which would not help in this case). Thoughts?

[markusfisch]

Yes, that would be an option. Will try.

[SpitFire-666]

I just realised I can also use the Share option in BE and share the string to my browser, which works well, just a bit clunky.