Cannot open file from https location (URL)

[Andreas Schildbach]

If I try, I get this GIMP message:

  Opening 'https://[...]' failed:

  Could not load 'https://[...]': Failed to open file 'https://[...]': open() failed: No such file or directory

Most of the time, I can manually edit the URL to read http://[...] and I can open the document as expected.

The bug is a security vulnerability because it forces users to use unsecure communication.

$ lsb_release -rd
Description: Ubuntu 16.04.1 LTS
Release: 16.04

$ apt-cache policy gimp
gimp:
  Installed: 2.8.16-1ubuntu1.1
  Candidate: 2.8.16-1ubuntu1.1
  Version table:
 *** 2.8.16-1ubuntu1.1 500
        500 http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu xenial-updates/universe amd64 Packages
        500 http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu xenial-security/universe amd64 Packages
        100 /var/lib/dpkg/status
     2.8.16-1ubuntu1 500
        500 http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu xenial/universe amd64 Packages

[Michael Schumacher (schumaml)]

Might be missing SSL support in some library or tool, or a failure to access that particular server - the file-uri plug-in can be built to use through gvfs, libcurl or wget, cf. https://git.gnome.org/browse/gimp/tree/plug-ins/file-uri/Makefile.am?h=gimp-2-8#n26

My bet for the Ubuntu packages is on gvfs, as the gimp package doesn't seem to have a dependency on libcurl or wget. I'm not running Ubuntu and thus can't check, though.

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

Status changed to 'Confirmed' because the bug affects multiple users.

[Paulo Marcel Coelho Aragão (marcelpaulo)]

I'm running Xubuntu 17.10 with gimp 2.8.20 and I still can't open https URLs with gimp. According to this upstream bug report:

https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=782319

gimp 2.8 should be able to open https URLs as long as glib-networking is installed, here I quote that bug report:

> If it is installed while not working, it probably means it is not found at runtime for a reason
> which pertains to how the system is set up.

I have glib-networking 2.54.0-1 installed but I still can't open https URLs, so there's something wrong with the build and/or packaging.

[Luís Infante da Câmara (luis220413)]

Ubuntu 16.04 reached end of standard support on April 2021 and ESM does not cover this package.
Ubuntu 17.10 reached end-of-life on July 2018.

Please try to reproduce this bug on a supported Ubuntu release.

[Paul White (paulw2u)]

Bug report did not expire due to bug watch
Upstream issue closed "RESOLVED OBSOLETE" on 2018-04-22
with two comments to say issue fixed in version 2.10.
Works for me using Ubuntu 22.04
No reply to comment #3 so closing as bug now fixed.