[Portland-bugs] [Bug 101180] New: gio open handler causing issues with certain URIs

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https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=101180

            Bug ID: 101180
           Summary: gio open handler causing issues with certain URIs
           Product: Portland
           Version: unspecified
          Hardware: Other
                OS: All
            Status: NEW
          Severity: normal
          Priority: medium
         Component: xdg-utils
          Assignee: portland-bugs at lists.freedesktop.org
          Reporter: jmulesa at gmail.com

xdg-open is currently unusable for magnet links on desktop environments that
rely on the 'gio open' handler (and gvfs-open on gnome 3.24+). Here are a
couple bugs for context:

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1426299

https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=779182

While the second bug is working on a possible fix for the issue in gio-tool
itself, it isn't clear that the change is going to be implemented anytime soon,
and applications that currently rely on xdg-open for certain URIs such as
magnet links are broken. I'm not exactly sure what additional functionality
would be lost by just using the generic handler, but at least that one works in
this situation where gio is trying to mutate the URI incorrectly.

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