[27212] in Athena Bugs
Re: linux 9.4.47: htmlview
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Jonathan Reed)
Thu Jul 17 16:45:07 2008
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Further investigation reveals that it's not just htmlview - having the
%s quoted in the url-handler breaks anything attempting to use the URL
handler, including, for example, double-clicking on .html files in
Nautilus.
I haven't investigated this further, so I don't know what changed or
when, but it seems like a lot more people than I initially thought
have the argument quoted in their url-handler command.
-Jon
On Jul 17, 2008, at 10:54 AM, Jonathan D Reed wrote:
> 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.
