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Bug 1310892 - gnome-terminal hyperlink detection broken in xml
Summary: gnome-terminal hyperlink detection broken in xml
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Status: CLOSED WONTFIX
Alias: None
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6
Classification: Red Hat
Component: gnome-terminal
Version: 6.9
Hardware: Unspecified
OS: Unspecified
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unspecified
Target Milestone: rc
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Assignee: Debarshi Ray
QA Contact: Desktop QE
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Blocks: 1310894
TreeView+ depends on / blocked
 
Reported: 2016-02-22 22:41 UTC by Christopher Tubbs
Modified: 2017-12-06 12:34 UTC (History)
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Last Closed: 2017-12-06 12:34:17 UTC
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Description Christopher Tubbs 2016-02-22 22:41:59 UTC 
Description of problem:
When I Ctrl-click a link in gnome-terminal, it opens in the default browser. However, if the link is in an XML tag, the first character of the closing tag "<" is always included in the hyperlink when it is highlighted (underlined) and clicked.

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):
gnome-terminal-2.31.3-11.el6_6.x86_64 (affects every version of RHEL/CentOS/Fedora I've tried, but this is what's on my current system)

How reproducible:
100%

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Paste: "<url>https://bugzilla.redhat.com</url>" into gnome-terminal
2. Ctrl+click on the link

Actual results:
Browser tries to open "https://bugzilla.redhat.com<"

Expected results:
Browser should open "https://bugzilla.redhat.com"

Additional info:

This bug has been irritating me for many RHEL and Fedora releases.

While angle brackets can be used to delimit a URI (http://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc3986.txt), it's generally unsafe to use without urlencoding (http://www.blooberry.com/indexdot/html/topics/urlencoding.htm), so it should never be seen as part of the URL itself.

Even if it were seen in a valid URL, I think the use-case of Ctrl+clicking from XML is a much more reasonable use case to support, because it is much more likely users will want to click on URLs inside XML than to click on a URL that actually happens to have a less-than sign in it.

Further, even if it were expected behavior to include the less-than character as part of the URL, the very next characters ('/url>' in my example) would also be valid, but are clearly not included in the URL... so clearly, this is a bug.
Comment 2 Egmont Koblinger 2016-02-23 00:33:34 UTC 
There are many more problems with URL detection. Upstream fix is at https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=756038. No easy way and no simple patch to backport to old branches exists.
Comment 3 Egmont Koblinger 2016-03-04 20:06:19 UTC 
I've backported the fix to the 3-18 branch (and hopefully applies cleanly to older ones as well):
https://git.gnome.org/browse/gnome-terminal/commit/?h=gnome-3-18&id=3bd692f
Comment 4 Jan Kurik 2017-12-06 12:34:17 UTC 
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