Bug 36009

Summary: xdg-open fails to open urls/files with embedded %20's
Product: Portland Reporter: Dave <dave>
Component: xdg-utilsAssignee: Portland Bugs <portland-bugs>
Status: RESOLVED MOVED QA Contact:
Severity: normal    
Priority: medium CC: bugs, freedesktop.zen.ssokolow
Version: 1.0   
Hardware: x86 (IA32)   
OS: Linux (All)   
Whiteboard:
i915 platform: i915 features:

Description Dave 2011-04-05 15:48:54 UTC 
Try to open a file in qbittorrent and the filename will have %20 instead of spaces, which fails in xdg-open with a 'file doesn't exist' error.

A simple workaround is to do something like this:

url=`echo "$url" | sed 's/%20/\\ /g'`

But this will probably mess up internet urls.

I don't know how widespread the problem is or whether it's only a problem with qbittorrent, but I thought it was worth reporting it.
Comment 1 GitLab Migration User 2019-02-16 13:30:40 UTC 
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