Open links in the host OS when clicking them in the guest OS (VirtualBox)

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The MIT License (MIT)

Copyright (C) 2015 Oleh Prypin blaxpirit@gmail.com

Permission is hereby granted, free of charge, to any person obtaining a copy of this software and associated documentation files (the "Software"), to deal in the Software without restriction, including without limitation the rights to use, copy, modify, merge, publish, distribute, sublicense, and/or sell copies of the Software, and to permit persons to whom the Software is furnished to do so, subject to the following conditions:

The above copyright notice and this permission notice shall be included in all copies or substantial portions of the Software.

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browser_daemon.py

#!/usr/bin/env python

import webbrowser
try:
    from urllib.parse import parse_qs
except ImportError:
    from urlparse import parse_qs

def application(environ, start_response):
    try:
        if environ['REQUEST_METHOD'] == 'POST':
            try:
                length = int(environ['CONTENT_LENGTH'])
            except KeyError:
                length = None
            post = parse_qs(environ['wsgi.input'].read(length).decode('utf-8'))
            [url] = post['url']
            webbrowser.open(url, new=2, autoraise=True)

    except Exception as e:
        print(repr(e))

    start_response('200 OK', [('Content-Type', 'text/html; charset=utf-8')])
    return []

if __name__ == '__main__':
    from wsgiref.simple_server import make_server

    httpd = make_server('127.0.0.1', 1337, application)
    httpd.serve_forever()

browser_daemon_flask.py

#!/usr/bin/env python

import webbrowser

from flask import Flask, request

app = Flask(__name__)

@app.route('/', methods=['POST'])
def index():
    url = request.values['url']
    webbrowser.open(url, new=2, autoraise=True)
    return ''

if __name__ == '__main__':
    app.run(port=1337)

open_url.py

#!/usr/bin/env python

import sys
try:
    from urllib.parse import urlencode
    from urllib.request import Request, urlopen
except ImportError:
    from urllib import urlencode
    from urllib2 import Request, urlopen

url = 'http://10.0.2.2:1337/'
values = {'url': sys.argv[1]}

data = urlencode(values)
if not isinstance(data, bytes):
    data = data.encode('utf-8')
req = Request(url, data)
urlopen(req)

open_url.sh

#!/bin/sh

curl --data-urlencode "url=$1" http://10.0.2.2:1337/ || chromium "$1"