xdg-open mangles mailto: urls to ///<email address hidden>

Sorry,

Forgot to mention that this is in Ubuntu 8.10 with xdg-utils 1.0.2-6.

I'm also affected by this bug. Please fix!

Since "bzr send" uses xdg-email by default on *nix, it is also affected.
A workaround for evolution, thunderbird and kmail is to set "mail_client=CLIENT".

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  summary "xdg-open mangles mailto: urls to ///<email address hidden>"

> When you pass xdg-open an url such as mailto:<email address hidden>, when the email client is opened it displays ///<email address hidden> as the email address. xdg-email seems to suffer from the same problem.

I've hit this too and was wondering where it came from.

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Martin

I would imagine this bug comes from attempting to canonicalise URLs; mailto:<email address hidden> is a URI, not a URL

Actually, bzr should be using xdg-email. I think xdg-open should either error or be more helpful when given a mailto: URI.

xdg-open is a very simple shell script which appears to do nothing to modify the URL parameter before passing it to the chosen desktop handler (so gnome-open for Ubuntu). Indeed, running:

gnome-open mailto:<email address hidden>

will produce the same prefixed ///

(xdg-email also calls gnome-open)

gnome-open is even shorter than xdg-open, albeit in C. It appears to be doing the canonicalisation with calls to GIO.

It seems as though passing a mailto: URI to a GIO function that creates a GFile (e.g. g_file_new_for_commandline_arg() which gnome-open uses) "may be slightly destructive", to quote GIO's ChangeLog.
On the (admittedly somewhat arbitrary and potentially spurious) basis that something called GFile has no business dealing with things that aren't files, I've attached a naive patch to make gnome-open not feed mailto URIs through GFile.

(if this is not to be fixed in gnome-open, but GFile then this bug should be moved to glib2 rather than libgnome. I've invalidated the xdg-utils task because that seems like an entirely worse place to fix it than gnome-open)

corrected the upstream link, rejecting the xdg-utils upstream task as well, thanks.

same bug as 294233 , marking this as dup, did the same with the upstream one.

I am now seeing this problem with xdg-open and xdg-email, but not gnome-open (no extra slashes added). As bug #294233 discusses gnome-open, this one is not a duplicate and should be re-opened and fixed.

Running xdg-open 1.1.0 rc3 on Ubuntu 15.10 (dev).