[Portland-bugs] [Bug 109318] New: xdg-open does not accept file://localhost/ URIs

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https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=109318

            Bug ID: 109318
           Summary: xdg-open does not accept file://localhost/ 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: rich.tollerton at ni.com

Presently, file://localhost/ URLs are totally unsupported: is_file_url_or_path
correctly considers them files, but they are undecoded and hence
check_input_file fails.

While the standardization surrounding file: URLs is admittedly vague [1],
AFAIK,
*all* literature, and other implementations, unambiguously demonstrate that
file://localhost/ should be equivalent to file:/// :

- The "File URI specification" explicitly linked to from the xdg-utils homepage
[2]
- RFC 8089 section 1.1
- RFC 1738 section 3.10
- Observed implementations of Windows `start`, macOS `open`, Firefox, Chrome,
IE

Proposed fix is in the merge request at
https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/xdg/xdg-utils/merge_requests/1 .

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