Safari can’t open “asfunction:lyrics,14959136” because Mac OS X doesn’t recognize Internet addresses starting with “asfunction:”.

I figure if i use a protocol handler/helper, this would solve the problem, but i have no idea what to use in order to get this to work! Any help would be appreciated. (keep in mind im on a mac)

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Originally posted by legaianlight:
Safari can’t open “asfunction:lyrics,14959136” because Mac OS X doesn’t recognize Internet addresses starting with “asfunction:”.

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That looks like a JavaScript or something similar which isn't a valid HTML link. You'll have to find a hard link, look at the page's source code, or click on the link and copy the lyrics or resulting URL in the URL bar (but that probably won't happen).

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The main problem is that this is embedded in their music player, which is flash or js or something funky like that. I have no idea how to figure out the link from that. This (i think) is a problem in looking at the source code. When i click on the link, nothing happens, and when i copy the url to the url bar, that's when i get the "asfunction:lyrics,14959136" link.

So now to keep searchin!

EDIT - Well, i decided to ask my dad if he knew how or could figure it out, and wouldnt you know it, he could figure it out! lol. So it looks like the solution is to go into the page source and search for lyrics. When you find something like...
function lyrics(id){
window.open('http://music.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=bandprofile.songLyrics&friendid=81111926&MyToken=c76616be-fed5-4e38-a972-a69fc65a195e&songid='+id,'Lyrics','scrollbars=ye s,resizable,width=650,height=700');
}
...the above, then you take 'http://music.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=bandprofile.songLyrics&friendid=81111926&MyToken=c76616be-fed5-4e38-a972-a69fc65a195e&songid='+id' this part of it, ditch the '+id' at the end and the ' at the beginning, and copy paste it to your address bar. From there, you go into the music player and right click on the Lyrics button to the song you want to get the lyrics on and paste that somewhere. Then take the last piece of it (in my case, the 14959136) and tag it on where the '+id' was, giving you something like:

http://music.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=bandprofile.songLyrics&friendid=81111926&MyToken=c76616be-fed5-4e38-a972-a69fc65a195e&songid=14959136

Note that the http address will change from artist to artist.

Thanks again for your help, CPU!

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O Praise Christ, O Praise Christ, He Is Holy, He Is Holy - O Praise Him

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[This message has been edited by legaianlight (edited October 13, 2007).]