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          <th>Bug ID</th>
          <td><a class="bz_bug_link 
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   title="NEW - xdg-open does not accept file://localhost/ URIs"
   href="https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=109318">109318</a>
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          <th>Summary</th>
          <td>xdg-open does not accept file://localhost/ URIs
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          <th>Product</th>
          <td>Portland
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          <th>Version</th>
          <td>unspecified
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          <th>Hardware</th>
          <td>Other
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          <th>OS</th>
          <td>All
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          <th>Status</th>
          <td>NEW
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          <th>Severity</th>
          <td>normal
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          <th>Priority</th>
          <td>medium
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          <th>Component</th>
          <td>xdg-utils
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          <th>Assignee</th>
          <td>portland-bugs@lists.freedesktop.org
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          <th>Reporter</th>
          <td>rich.tollerton@ni.com
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        <pre>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
<a href="https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/xdg/xdg-utils/merge_requests/1">https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/xdg/xdg-utils/merge_requests/1</a> .</pre>
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