Package: xdg-utils
Version: 1.1.3-2
Severity: normal
Tags: patch
Dear Maintainer,
$ echo Hello >/tmp/foo.html
$ xdg-open file://localhost/tmp/foo.html
Unable to run the command specified. The file or folder
//localhost/tmp/foo.html does not exist.
$ xdg-open file:///tmp/foo.html
-> open foo.html as expected.
Normally file:///tmp/foo.html and file://localhost/tmp/foo.html are
equivalent URLs.
Note that this is fixed upstream in the commit below:
commit 186966735dcccd61afde937118f27043bd084f57
Author: Richard Tollerton <rich.toller...@ni.com>
Date: Thu Jan 10 15:41:08 2019 -0600
xdg-open: handle file://localhost/
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
Fix this by adding some simple carve-outs for file://localhost specifically
in
file_url_to_path.
[1] https://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/xdg/2004-November/003711.html
[2] https://edeproject.org/spec/file-uri-spec.txt
Signed-off-by: Richard Tollerton <rich.toller...@ni.com>
-- Package-specific info:
Desktop environment: XDG_CURRENT_DESKTOP=KDE
-- System Information:
Debian Release: 10.6
APT prefers stable
APT policy: (500, 'stable')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)
Foreign Architectures: i386
Kernel: Linux 4.19.0-11-amd64 (SMP w/8 CPU cores)
Kernel taint flags: TAINT_WARN, TAINT_OOT_MODULE, TAINT_UNSIGNED_MODULE
Locale: LANG=fr_FR.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=fr_FR.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8),
LANGUAGE=fr:en_US (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash
Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system)
LSM: AppArmor: enabled
xdg-utils depends on no packages.
Versions of packages xdg-utils recommends:
ii libfile-mimeinfo-perl 0.29-1
ii libnet-dbus-perl 1.1.0-5+b1
ii libx11-protocol-perl 0.56-7
ii x11-utils 7.7+4
ii x11-xserver-utils 7.7+8
xdg-utils suggests no packages.
-- no debconf information
