[Portland-bugs] [Bug 98648] New: xdg-open does not support queries in file: URLs

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            Bug ID: 98648
           Summary: xdg-open does not support queries in file: URLs
           Product: Portland
           Version: unspecified
          Hardware: Other
                OS: All
            Status: NEW
          Severity: minor
          Priority: medium
         Component: xdg-utils
          Assignee: portland-bugs at lists.freedesktop.org
          Reporter: rrt at sc3d.org

This is not really xdg-open's fault. For example, I believe it works in KDE (as
per bug #7863); but it doesn't work in GNOME, because gvfs-open doesn't support
it.

xdg-open should (as usual) paper over the cracks here, by detecting queries
(and anchors) in file: URLs, and improving open_generic to open them with a
browser. This can be achieved by improving is_file_url_or_path to be, as it
were, is_plain_file_url_or_path.

This bug prevents xdg-open being used in some places, e.g. as Racket's launcher
(www.racket-lang.org).

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