Authenticating and xdg-open

Due to a bug in xdg-open a registered protocol scheme like safe-alphachars01234 won’t be opened correctly due to the digits in there. https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=104973

Also, because the desktop entry files containing quoted values in the Exec key — like Exec="/usr/bin/safe-browser" %u — xdg-open won’t be able to open the browser binary. (https://askubuntu.com/q/189822)

Also see this topic on SAFE Dev Forum about users encountering the issue: https://forum.safedev.org/t/app-webfetch-is-not-a-function-with-safe-browser-built-from-source/2301

[b-zee]

As the issue is really with xdg-utils I wanted to mention that a fix has been committed a while ago (March 2019) by XDG: https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/xdg/xdg-utils/commit/bfcefa162b1dcd6d62e193019969ff2f5ff331cf

It’s now about waiting for them to release a new version of their packages containing the fix.

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Edit: besides the other part of the issue where quotes in the .desktop file prevent xdg-open from correctly opening the browser.

And after some more looking around I found the second part of our issue has already been reported to XDG: https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/xdg/xdg-utils/issues/151

Unfortunately I also see that the project has no activity for the past four months and no release since May 2018.

And after even more digging I see that electron-builder has ‘fixed’ this since their v21.0.1 release (2019 June 24). Which I gladly see is on that version already on the dev branch. However, building and packaging the dev version does still produce a quoted path…

[joshuef]

with auth moving out of the browser I’m closing this