Authenticating and xdg-open

[b-zee]

Due to a bug in xdg-open a registered protocol scheme like safe-alphachars01234 won't be opened correctly due to the digits in there. https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=104973

Also, because the desktop entry files containing quoted values in the Exec key --- like Exec="/usr/bin/safe-browser" %u --- xdg-open won't be able to open the browser binary. (https://askubuntu.com/q/189822)

Also see this topic on SAFE Dev Forum about users encountering the issue: https://forum.safedev.org/t/app-webfetch-is-not-a-function-with-safe-browser-built-from-source/2301

[joshuef]

Nice research @b-zee.

We could (potentially) negate the xdg issue with opn perhaps (as that ships with its own), assuming that's up to date...

Coupled with the string escaping this might solve a few xdg type issues 👍