xdg-open truncates URLs at the first '&'

[Robert Bruce Park]

$ xdg-open 'http://example.com/?foo&bar'

Expected behavior: that URL opens in my browser

Actual behavior: browser opens 'http://example.com/?foo'

[William Grant (wgrant)]

If even gnome-terminal can't open the link properly, this isn't anything Launchpad-specific.

[Robert Bruce Park (robru)]

How does lplib open the link the first time though? That has the same issue
and presumably it isn't lplib telling gnome terminal to open the link for
it.

[William Grant (wgrant)]

On 19/12/15 07:50, Robert Bruce Park wrote:
> How does lplib open the link the first time though? That has the same issue
> and presumably it isn't lplib telling gnome terminal to open the link for
> it.

launchpadlib uses Python's "webbrowser" module. That should use xdg-open
by default, if it's installed. gnome-terminal probably does the same.

[Robert Bruce Park (robru)]

Ok confirmed:

$ xdg-open 'https://launchpad.net/+authorize-token?oauth_token=H17khGCRnvSzc10PzjZl&allow_permission=DESKTOP_INTEGRATION'

Shows the same behavior, truncates at the &.

[Robert Bruce Park (robru)]

Hi, in latest Ubuntu Xenial, I am experiencing the following behavior:

$ xdg-open 'http://example.com/?foo&bar'

The page that opens in the browser is simply 'http://example.com/?foo'

This is with xdg-utils package 1.1.0~rc3+git20150907-1ubuntu3

It's not clear to me if this is a duplicate of https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=44046 which sounds related, but is also 4 years old, and I definitely have not been experiencing this issue for the last 4 years.

Let me know if there's any other information I can provide to debug, thanks.

[Robert Bruce Park (robru)]

Reported here: https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=93444

[karthikkn (karthikkn)]

All tested URLs works for me without any problem in 16.04.

[Nicholas Guriev (mymedia)]

The bug is no longer reproducible using Firefox with latest version of xdg-utils in clean test environment. If it is still case for you, please attach an output of the command with "bash -x" prepended (without quotes).