Bugzilla – Bug 1215219
xdg-utils: cannot open https/https urls, malformed character
Last modified: 2023-09-11 15:59:46 UTC
package installed info: Information for package xdg-utils: ---------------------------------- Repository : openSUSE-Tumbleweed-Oss Name : xdg-utils Version : 1.1.3+20230830-1.1 Arch : noarch Vendor : openSUSE Installed Size : 348.4 KiB Installed : Yes Status : up-to-date Source package : xdg-utils-1.1.3+20230830-1.1.src Upstream URL : https://www.freedesktop.org/wiki/Software/xdg-utils/ with this version is not possible to open any url with http / https prefix , this is the error: xdg-open https://www.kernel.org start : This command cannot be run due to the error: The system cannot find the file specified. At line:1 char:1 + start https\www.kernel.org + ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ + CategoryInfo : InvalidOperation: (:) [Start-Process], InvalidOperationException + FullyQualifiedErrorId : InvalidOperationException,Microsoft.PowerShell.Commands.StartProcessCommand NOTE: opensuse tumbleweed installed in WSL subsystem with older version xdg-utils-1.1.3+20210805-2.3.noarch there are no problems
https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=108975 https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/xdg/xdg-utils/-/issues/140 https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/xdg/xdg-utils/-/merge_requests/37/diffs?commit_id=d9e547b64b738ecb53dfb3497842500b8f6368b9 Calling wslpath on a URL won't work: $ wslpath -w "https://www.example.com/" https\www.example.com\ [sic]