Bug 519068 - Problem opening URLs ending with %
Summary: Problem opening URLs ending with %
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Status: CLOSED NOTABUG
Alias: None
Product: Fedora
Classification: Fedora
Component: gvfs
Version: 12
Hardware: All
OS: Linux
low
medium
Target Milestone: ---
Assignee: Tomáš Bžatek
QA Contact: Fedora Extras Quality Assurance
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Depends On:
Blocks:
TreeView+ depends on / blocked
 
Reported: 2009-08-24 20:29 UTC by Michel Lind
Modified: 2015-03-03 22:40 UTC (History)
5 users (show)

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Last Closed: 2010-11-04 21:31:46 UTC
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Mail message with URL link that triggers bug (4.91 KB, text/plain)
2009-08-24 20:29 UTC, Michel Lind
no flags Details

Description Michel Lind 2009-08-24 20:29:50 UTC
Created attachment 358501 [details]
Mail message with URL link that triggers bug

Description of problem:
If a URL ends with %, Evolution receives an exception from camel that it then cannot recover from; short of 'killall evolution', it no longer responds to user input.

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):
evolution-2.27.90-3.fc12.x86_64

How reproducible:
Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. start evolution on command line
2. click link on the email attached
3. see error message popping up -- verify on stderr
  
Actual results:
(evolution:7301): e-utils-WARNING **: GConf error:
  Bad key or directory name: "/desktop/gnome/url-handlers/": Key/directory may not end with a slash '/'
%^Cp://people.redhat.com/mclasen/Screenshot-Applications%20for 


Expected results:
Even if the URL is invalid, Evolution should be able to recover

Additional info:
In this case, it just happens that a valid link is line-wrapped at a particular point that triggers the bug.

Comment 1 Milan Crha 2009-08-26 15:58:09 UTC
Thnaks for the bug report. I cannot reproduce the "cannot recover" state. I can reproduce the terminal error from GConf, and I see the same also when invoking this command:
   $ gvfs-open http://www.example.com/file%20for%

Thus I believe it's an error in gvfs. Evolution is using gvfs for URL openings now. I'm moving this to gvfs.

Comment 2 Bug Zapper 2009-11-16 11:39:09 UTC
This bug appears to have been reported against 'rawhide' during the Fedora 12 development cycle.
Changing version to '12'.

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Comment 4 Michel Lind 2010-11-04 21:31:46 UTC
Looks like URLs cannot end in % anyway -- Apache throws an error page if such are entered to the browser.


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