Bug 967239

Summary: IPv6 http URLs not recognised or clickable in gnome-terminal
Product: [Fedora] Fedora Reporter: karlp
Component: gnome-terminalAssignee: Matthias Clasen <mclasen>
Status: CLOSED EOL QA Contact: Fedora Extras Quality Assurance <extras-qa>
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Description karlp 2013-05-25 22:25:08 UTC
Description of problem:
URLs in gnome-terminal are underlined and can be ctrl-clicked to "do things" with them.  This should also work for ipv6 urls like http://[2001:DB8::1] for instance.  http://asdfadsfa correctly underlines as a URL at least, even if it can't do anything when it's clicked. I'm sure there's an rfc on it somewhere, probably RFC3986 for the basic level, and http://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc6874 for the extended version source index included.

I'm 99% sure this is a gnome-terminal issue, but as per their guidelines, I must report it to my distribution first. https://live.gnome.org/Terminal/ReportingBugs

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):
3.6.1

How reproducible:
Every time


Steps to Reproduce:
1. Type or have typed into a terminal an IPv6 URl such as http://[2001:db8::1]
2. Mouse over the url
3.

Actual results:
No underlining, therefore nothing to click on.


Expected results:
Should be recognised as a valid URL.  It works in a browser, (not this one from the "reserved for documentation" space of course)


Additional info:

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Comment 2 karlp 2013-12-21 14:18:26 UTC
Not surprisingly, this is still a problem in fedora 19, with gnome-terminal 3.8.4

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Comment 4 karlp 2015-01-10 00:52:30 UTC
Not surprisingly, this is still a problem in fedora 20, with gnome-terminal 3.10.2.

As before, Gnome won't let me file it directly, "If you're a developer of GNOME Terminal, VTE, or GNOME in general, you can file the bug in GNOME's bugzilla. In all other cases, you should file the bug against your Linux distribution's bug tracker; see here for a list of distribution bug trackers. The distribution bug triagers will then gather all the necessary information and confirmation before forwarding the bug to our bugzilla, if necessary."

So.  Bug triagers, how long before you get around to pushing this upstream for me?

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Comment 6 karlp 2015-02-19 09:57:16 UTC
No! I verified this on Fedora 20, as requested by this bug.  Why was this closed?!

I've since reverified it to _still_ be a problem in Fedora 21 with gnome-terminal 3.14.2 (unsurprisingly of course)

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Comment 8 karlp 2015-11-04 14:37:49 UTC
Unsurprisingly, this is still a bug in Fedora 22, with gnome-terminal 3.16.2-2.fc22

However, these days, someone else finally decided to disobey gnome's elitest rules and filed a bug directly against them.  This is what i believe someone in fedora was meant to do, but clearly the idea of reporting gnome bugs against the distro is a stupid plan, as I filed this "the right way" back in 2013 and never even had it acknowledged.

The upstream bug, still not fixed of course, is: https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=735597

Note that in the time since I filed this, even _BUGZILLA_, the giant lumbering old clunker of a pretense of a ticket system has been updated to have ipv6 links recognized and automatically turned into links. :|

Comment 9 Fedora End Of Life 2016-07-19 10:13:42 UTC
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Comment 10 karlp 2016-07-19 21:14:56 UTC
Actually, it _was_ fixed, but your robot operates completely without human oversight.  The upstream bug, as referenced above, and also here: https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=735597 now has finally been fixed.  Fedora 23 finally (5 versions after reporting, with no help from fedora and the "upstream first" rules) has working link detection for ipv6 urls.  yay.