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Asked: 2026-05-28T20:55:09+00:00

I’m developing a console Java application(Not swing) using java.awt.Desktop class, which will launch the

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I’m developing a console Java application(Not swing) using java.awt.Desktop class, which will launch the browser with something like this; 

Desktop.getDesktop().browse(URI.create("http://www.google.com"));

This works, but actually what i want is not to give an absolute URL but to display a string with HTML content which I have builded in the code. Can I directly do do this without saving my content as a html page and then calling again?

String myHtmlstring="<body>.."
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  1. Editorial Team

    For this to work, you would need an browser, which can be started with the html-content as parameter.

     firefox -code "<html><head><title>demo</title></head><body>..."

    If you look at the manpages for firefox, lynx and opera, you won’t find such an option (I didn’t). But theoretically, it would be possible.

    Since html-pages are normally some kb big, using the parameters would be very unhandy, because html often contains quotes and apostrophes, which would need masking. Therefore, if a passing of content would be possible, I would expect it as reading from stdin like so:

      cat demo.html | browser

    However, I don’t know a browser which supports this.

    Summary: No, it’s not possible with today browsers, but in principle it would be possible. Going with temporary files would be the solution, you’re already aware off.

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