[27211] in Athena Bugs
linux 9.4.47: htmlview
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Jonathan D Reed)
Thu Jul 17 10:54:56 2008
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Date: Thu, 17 Jul 2008 10:54:28 -0400
From: Jonathan D Reed <jdreed@mit.edu>
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System name: infinite-loop.mit.edu
Type and version: i686 9.4.47 (with mkserv)
Display type: Intel Corporation 82915G/GV/910GL Integrated Graphics Controller (rev 04)
Shell: /bin/athena/tcsh
Window manager: metacity
What were you trying to do?
Run htmlview on a URL (via "help", in this case)
What's wrong:
htmlview fails if the %s argument in the http url-handler is
quoted. It attempts to display the URL as though it were a file in
`pwd`.
What should have happened:
It should have worked
Please describe any relevant documentation references:
It appears that a non-zero number of people have their
url-handler http command set to: /usr/lib/firefox/firefox "%s"
I'm not sure why, perhaps an artifact of several GNOME
migrations. Regardless, in this case, the argument appears to
passed to firefox in its quoted form, which for some reason
causes firefox to interpret it as a file, not a URL.
I haven't tracked down exactly at what point the quotes cause it
to fail, and I suspect no one cares, but I figured I'd report it.
