purple-url-handler crashed with AttributeError in unquote_plus()

[Shahar Or]

Binary package hint: pidgin

Dear interested parties,

It seems that it doesn't matter what I write after "irc:", it crashes.

dawn@dawn-desktop:~$ purple-url-handler irc://blah
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/usr/bin/purple-url-handler", line 367, in <module>
    main()
  File "/usr/bin/purple-url-handler", line 349, in main
    irc(uri)
  File "/usr/bin/purple-url-handler", line 190, in irc
    server = urllib.unquote_plus(match.group(2)) or ""
  File "/usr/lib/python2.5/urllib.py", line 1166, in unquote_plus
    s = s.replace('+', ' ')
AttributeError: 'NoneType' object has no attribute 'replace'
dawn@dawn-desktop:~$ purple-url-handler irc:blah
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/usr/bin/purple-url-handler", line 367, in <module>
    main()
  File "/usr/bin/purple-url-handler", line 349, in main
    irc(uri)
  File "/usr/bin/purple-url-handler", line 190, in irc
    server = urllib.unquote_plus(match.group(2)) or ""
  File "/usr/lib/python2.5/urllib.py", line 1166, in unquote_plus
    s = s.replace('+', ' ')
AttributeError: 'NoneType' object has no attribute 'replace'

Many blessings.

ProblemType: Crash
Architecture: i386
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 8.10
ExecutablePath: /usr/bin/purple-url-handler
InterpreterPath: /usr/bin/python2.5
NonfreeKernelModules: ath_hal
Package: libpurple-bin 1:2.5.2-0ubuntu1.1
PackageArchitecture: all
ProcAttrCurrent: unconfined
ProcCmdline: python /usr/bin/purple-url-handler irc://irc.freenode.net#tikiwiki
ProcEnviron:
 PATH=/usr/local/sbin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/bin:/sbin:/bin:/usr/games
 LANG=he_IL.UTF-8
 SHELL=/bin/bash
PythonArgs: ['/usr/bin/purple-url-handler', 'irc://irc.freenode.net#tikiwiki']
SourcePackage: pidgin
Title: purple-url-handler crashed with AttributeError in unquote_plus()
Uname: Linux 2.6.27-11-generic i686
UserGroups: adm admin cdrom dialout lpadmin plugdev sambashare sudo vboxusers

[Sebastien Bacher (seb128)]

thank you for your bug report, that seems similar to http://developer.pidgin.im/ticket/3521

[Shahar Or (mightyiam)]

Dear Sebastien,

I think it may not be a duplicate of bug #126584 because the traceback is different and it crashed no matter how I write the URL.

Many blessings.