Yes, this behaviour can be replicated by e.g.:
firefox '"http://www.piware.de";'
so the problem is spurious quoting somewhere.
The webbrowser module interprets the gconf value as whitespace-separated
arguments:
# get the web browser string from gconftool
gc = 'gconftool-2 -g /desktop/gnome/url-handlers/http/command
2>/dev/null'
[...]
register("gnome", None, BackgroundBrowser(commd.split()))
whereas gnomevfs uses g_shell_parse_argv:
path = g_strconcat (GCONF_URL_HANDLER_PATH, scheme, "/command", NULL);
template = gconf_client_get_string (client, path, NULL);
[...]
if (!g_shell_parse_argv (template,
&argc,
&argv,
NULL)) {
which does the right thing with quotes if used in the gconf value. So,
the root problem is that gnomevfs and python's webbrowser module
interpret the string differently. I think it's safe to say that
gnomevfs is more authoritative, and so the bug belongs to Python.
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webbrowser incorrectly handles quoted arguments
https://launchpad.net/bugs/83974
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