deluge doesn't take magnet: links with slashes

[Chad Miller]

Lately, chromium has been changing/breaking/normalizing/something magnet links from

magnet:?xt=urn:btih:HEX&dn=name&tr=url

into

magnet:///?xt=urn:btih:HEX&dn=name&tr=url

before calling xdg-open, which makes deluge look for a file with that name.

$ deluge-gtk 'magnet:///?xt=urn:btih:HEX&dn=name&tr=url'
[ERROR ] 08:59:05 ipcinterface:217 No such file: /home/user/magnet:/?xt=urn:btih:HEX&dn=name&tr=url

I don't think a scheme'ed parameter should be interpreted as a file, or if it is, it should fall back to acting like a scheme if a file with that name does not exist.

[Chad Miller (cmiller)]

This fixes it. The magnet scheme ends at a colon, not the follow-up parameter start.

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[Eric Drechsel (ericdrex)]

Deluge seems to be correct in refusing to parse magnet URIs with slashes after the colon. Transmission also does not accept them either.

gvfs-open (called by xdg-open, called by chrome) is adding the slashes, which I believe is a bug.

[Eric Drechsel (ericdrex)]

Here is an upstream report of the issue:

https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=748600

Here is the original patch which caused it:

https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=738690

[Eric Drechsel (ericdrex)]

Looks like it is fixed in Gnome 3.16.

[Eric Drechsel (ericdrex)]

Correction: fixed in 3.16 branch, so will be in the next 3.16 series release (3.16.3 presumably)