Bug#282720: gnome-open: Cannot open URLs pointing to theonion.com

[Andreas Ehn]

Package: libgnome2-0
Version: 2.8.0-5
Severity: normal

For some reason gnome-open cannot open URLs pointing to
theonion.com. Some examples:

$ gnome-open http://www.theonion.com/
Error showing url: The specified location is invalid.
$ gnome-open http://theonion.com/
Error showing url: The specified location is invalid.
$ gnome-open theonion.com
Error showing url: The specified location is invalid.

These are the only kinds of URLs for which I have been able to detect
this problem. It's not a network issue. Opening other URLs with
gnome-open works flawlessly, and if I go to theonion.com in a web
browser, I have no problem.

-- System Information:
Debian Release: 3.1
  APT prefers unstable
  APT policy: (500, 'unstable')
Architecture: i386 (i686)
Kernel: Linux 2.6.9-1-686
Locale: LANG=sv_SE.ISO-8859-15, LC_CTYPE=sv_SE.ISO-8859-15 (charmap=ISO-8859-15)

Versions of packages libgnome2-0 depends on:
ii  libaudiofile0               0.2.6-4      Open-source version of SGI's audio
ii  libbonobo2-0                2.8.0-3      Bonobo CORBA interfaces library
ii  libc6                       2.3.2.ds1-18 GNU C Library: Shared libraries an
ii  libesd0                     0.2.35-2     Enlightened Sound Daemon - Shared 
ii  libgconf2-4                 2.8.1-4      GNOME configuration database syste
ii  libgcrypt11                 1.2.0-10     LGPL Crypto library - runtime libr
ii  libglib2.0-0                2.4.7-1      The GLib library of C routines
ii  libgnome2-common            2.8.0-5      The GNOME 2 library - common files
ii  libgnomevfs2-0              2.8.3-2      The GNOME virtual file-system libr
ii  libgnutls11                 1.0.16-12    GNU TLS library - runtime library
ii  libgpg-error0               1.0-1        library for common error values an
ii  liborbit2                   1:2.10.2-1.1 libraries for ORBit2 - a CORBA ORB
ii  libpopt0                    1.7-5        lib for parsing cmdline parameters
ii  libtasn1-2                  0.2.10-4     Manage ASN.1 structures (runtime)
ii  libxml2                     2.6.11-5     GNOME XML library
ii  zlib1g                      1:1.2.2-3    compression library - runtime

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