[Bug 341903] trailing slash stripped from URI when clicking a .desktop link

[nautilus (bugzilla.gnome.org)]

http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=341903


Tyson Clugg <tyson> changed:

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--- Comment #1 from Tyson Clugg <tyson at clugg.net> 2009-08-27 00:07:06 UTC ---
Still happening in August 2009 using whatever version of Gnome is included with
Debian 5.0 (Lenny).

This *is* an issue because the URI loaded is *not* the specified URI.  It is
not safe (nor sane) to assume anything about the configuration of any
particular webserver, optional Apache mod_rewite configurations included.

FFS, why does this software do *something* *different* than what I told it to
do?!?!  This is the sort of bug that makes software *unusable* (it appears to
"not work") and forces users to switch to something else...

...yes, forces users to switch.  Imagine trying to configure a corporate
desktop and include a link in /etc/skel/Desktop/, but the trailing slash always
gets stripped off.  Yes, you could change the link to specify "firefox
http://toto.org/blop/" instead, but that would be making the assumption that
all users will be using Firefox.

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