Bug 109318

Summary:	xdg-open does not accept file://localhost/ URIs
Product:	Portland	Reporter:	Richard Tollerton <rich.tollerton>
Component:	xdg-utils	Assignee:	Portland Bugs <portland-bugs>
Status:	RESOLVED FIXED	QA Contact:
Severity:	normal
Priority:	medium	CC:	rich.tollerton
Version:	unspecified
Hardware:	Other
OS:	All
Whiteboard:
i915 platform:		i915 features:

Description Richard Tollerton 2019-01-11 17:11:43 UTC

Presently, file://localhost/ URLs are totally unsupported: is_file_url_or_path
correctly considers them files, but they are undecoded and hence
check_input_file fails.

While the standardization surrounding file: URLs is admittedly vague [1], AFAIK,
*all* literature, and other implementations, unambiguously demonstrate that
file://localhost/ should be equivalent to file:/// :

- The "File URI specification" explicitly linked to from the xdg-utils homepage [2]
- RFC 8089 section 1.1
- RFC 1738 section 3.10
- Observed implementations of Windows `start`, macOS `open`, Firefox, Chrome, IE

Proposed fix is in the merge request at https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/xdg/xdg-utils/merge_requests/1 .

Comment 1 Rex Dieter 2019-01-11 19:10:42 UTC

merge_request processed, thanks.

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