FS#44324 - [xdg-utils] appending "\\" on every "&"

Attached to Project: Arch Linux
Opened by Bogomil (smirky) - Tuesday, 24 March 2015, 16:58 GMT
Last edited by Andreas Radke (AndyRTR) - Saturday, 28 March 2015, 07:58 GMT
Task Type Bug Report
Category Packages: Extra
Status Closed
Assigned To Jan de Groot (JGC)
Andreas Radke (AndyRTR)
Architecture All
Severity Low
Priority Normal
Reported Version
Due in Version Undecided
Due Date Undecided
Percent Complete 100%
Votes 1
Private No

Details

Description:
After updating xdg-utils from xdg-utils-1.1.0.git20141009-1-any.pkg.tar.xz to xdg-utils-1.1.0.git20150302-1-any.pkg.tar.xz, every "&" symbol inside links is being replaced with "\\&" on every occurrence.

$ xdg-open http(s)://domain.ltd/example&some_variables

gets opened like this:

http(s)://domain.ltd/example\\&some_variables

It adds "\\" in front of every "&" which makes opening links through a lot of programs, i.e. Skype, to fail. Firstly, I thought it was a fluxbox issue, because when I switched to Plasma 5, the bug wasn't present. Then I tried switching to awesome wm and confirmed it's not because of fluxbox (the bug was there too). Downgrading to the previous version of xdg-utils is a temporary workaround.

Additional info:
* package version(s)
xdg-utils 1.1.0.-git20150302-1

Steps to reproduce:
1. Open up a terminal.
2. $ xdg-open "http(s)://domain.ltd/example&some_variables"
3. Browsers opens up with http(s)://domain.ltd/example\\&some_variables
This task depends upon

Closed by  Andreas Radke (AndyRTR)
Saturday, 28 March 2015, 07:58 GMT
Reason for closing:  Fixed
Comment by Daniel Micay (thestinger) - Thursday, 26 March 2015, 08:36 GMT
Here is the upstream fix:

http://cgit.freedesktop.org/xdg/xdg-utils/commit/?id=686f6f48f6ff939c757881e3fc7a852b61d32c94

It should just be bumped to HEAD.
Comment by Gerry Kessler (renegat) - Thursday, 26 March 2015, 20:25 GMT
Perhaps related to this issue:

With an instance of chromium already open and the user agent spoofed in the chromium.desktop file:

Exec=chromium %U --incognito --user-agent='Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; de; rv:1.9.2.3) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/40.0.2214.94 Safari/537.36'

With xdg-utils1.1.0.git20141009-1:

$ xdg-open http://www.google.com

START /usr/bin/chromium "http://www.google.com" --incognito --user-agent='Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; de; rv:1.9.2.3) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/40.0.2214.94 Safari/537.36'
Created new window in existing browser session.

Works!

With xdg-utils 1.1.0.git20150302-1:

$ xdg-open http://www.google.com

Created new window in existing browser session.

Fails!
Opens the given link in the first tab and opens eight more empty tabs with parts of the user-agent string set in the desktop file.

Same happens with every application when trying to open a link with xdg-utils 1.1.0.git20150302-1 installed.
Downgrading to xdg-utils1.1.0.git20141009-1 solves it.

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