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sco

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Registered: 2017-02-07

Posts: 2

xdg-open handles ports in url wrong

Hi,
somehow I messed up my mime-sheme(?) for http(s) links.
If I try

xdg-open https://google.com:8080

it becomes

https://www.google.com/?line=8080&column=0

in the browser.

I think it happened after I switched from chormium to firefox as default browser but it did not change back after I switched back.

I checked the contents of

.local/share/mime

but to no avail.

Also the following looks okay to me?

> xdg-settings get default-url-scheme-handler http
firefox.desktop
> xdg-settings get default-url-scheme-handler https
firefox.desktop
> xdg-mime query default x-scheme-handler/http 
firefox.desktop
> xdg-mime query default x-scheme-handler/https 
firefox.desktop

Last edited by sco (2019-07-02 08:33:09)

outfrost

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From: sh: which: command not found

Registered: 2019-07-04

Posts: 2

Re: xdg-open handles ports in url wrong

Hi,

Same issue has started appearing for me just recently, without any changes to the default applications.

Interestingly,

xdg-open localhost:8080

opens

localhost?line=8080&column=0

in the browser.

However,

xdg-open localhost:8080/

opens the expected:

localhost:8080

Prepending http(s):// or not has no effect.

There doesn't seem to have been an update to xdg-open for quite a while, and yet this looks like a potential bug somewhere. After all, if xdg-open is going to process the supplied URI as a Web URL, it shouldn't consider numbers after a colon to be line/column numbers, should it?

ASRMarco13

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Registered: 2019-07-05

Posts: 3

Re: xdg-open handles ports in url wrong

Hello, i have the same problem. Any solution?

progandy

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Registered: 2012-05-17

Posts: 5,321

Re: xdg-open handles ports in url wrong

You can try to run it with bash in trace mode to find the problem. It is probably a tool xdg-open relies on like "gvfs-open"

 bash -x /usr/bin/xdg-open localhost:8080

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danielfm123

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Registered: 2019-07-15

Posts: 1

Re: xdg-open handles ports in url wrong

You can try to run it with bash in trace mode to find the problem. It is probably a tool xdg-open relies on like "gvfs-open"

 bash -x /usr/bin/xdg-open localhost:8080

still wont work...

outfrost

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From: sh: which: command not found

Registered: 2019-07-04

Posts: 2

Re: xdg-open handles ports in url wrong

Are any of you using Plasma 5 as well? I've looked at the code of xdg-open (it's a shell script), and determined that it uses kde-open5 in case of Plasma 5. Running

kde-open5 localhost:8080

produces the same erroneous result. Unfortunately, I do not know where to look in order to see whether that's an upstream bug.

Trilby

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Registered: 2011-11-29

Posts: 30,518

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Re: xdg-open handles ports in url wrong

still wont work...

That wasn't a suggestion of a fix, but a diagnostic step to gather information.

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progandy

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Registered: 2012-05-17

Posts: 5,321

Re: xdg-open handles ports in url wrong

outfrost, thanks for the trace to kde. Here are the upstream and opensuse bug reports I found:

https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=408632
https://bugzilla.opensuse.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1138956

This resolves the bug at least for urls starting with a scheme like http(s) or ftp. I have no idea if it will fix scheme-less urls.

Last edited by progandy (2019-07-24 15:15:52)

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