for some URLs opening a link in the terminal says, 'operator not supported'

[Stuart Morrow]

Binary package hint: gnome-terminal

Opening some links with right-click -> Open Link in gnome-terminal causes this popup, with "Could not open the address .... operation not supported"
Here's the extra details, something to do with gconf keys:
Bad key or directory name: "/desktop/gnome/url-handlers/": Key/directory may not end with a slash '/'

Here is my /desktop/gnome/url-handlers/http :
command: 'firefox %s',
enabled: True,
needs_terminal: False

But the weird and important thing is that I've only encountered this bug with one URL so far.

Here is one URL for which right-click -> Open Link gets this bug:
http://www.plosone.org/article/info%3Adoi%2F10.1371%2Fjournal.pone.0003832
Here is one for which it doesn't:
http://news.ycombinator.net

I'm using gnome-terminal=2.24.1.1-0ubuntu1

[Florian Diesch (diesch)]

I can reproduce this by copying above URL into gnome-terminal

gnome-terminal:
  Installiert: 2.24.1.1-0ubuntu1
  Kandidat: 2.24.1.1-0ubuntu1
  Versions-Tabelle:
 *** 2.24.1.1-0ubuntu1 0
        500 http://de.archive.ubuntu.com intrepid-updates/main Packages
        100 /var/lib/dpkg/status
     2.24.1-0ubuntu1 0
        500 http://de.archive.ubuntu.com intrepid/main Packages

[Florian Diesch (diesch)]

It works for http://www.plosone.org/article/info%3Adoi and http://www.plosone.org/article/info%3Adoi%3A but not for http://www.plosone.org/article/info%3Adoi%2F

[Pedro Villavicencio (pedro)]

looks like a gvfs issue, reassigning.

[Håkon Enger (hakon-enger)]

I have the same issue with any URL containing a %2F (hex for the slash character), and with left-clicking on them in e.g. evolution. I get the same error containing "Key/directory may not end with a slash". This URL, for example, does not work:
http://example.com/test%2Fhello
Any URL not containing %2F seems to work.