Bug 311314 – URLs in file-chooser shouldn't require a trailing slash

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Bug 311314 - URLs in file-chooser shouldn't require a trailing slash


Summary:	URLs in file-chooser shouldn't require a trailing slash


Status:	RESOLVED OBSOLETE

Product:	gtk+
Classification:	Platform
Component:	Widget: GtkFileChooser
Version:	2.12.x
Hardware:	Other All

Importance:	Normal minor
Target Milestone:	future
Assigned To:	gtk-bugs
QA Contact:	Federico Mena Quintero

URL:
Whiteboard:

Duplicates:	563224 (view as bug list)
Depends on:
Blocks:

Reported:	2005-07-23 04:28 UTC by Phil Crosby
Modified:	2018-02-13 14:28 UTC

See Also:
GNOME target:	---
GNOME version:	2.11/2.12

Description Phil Crosby 2005-07-23 04:28:09 UTC

Please describe the problem:
When entering an sftp:// uri in a gnome file selector via ctrl+L, the
urirequires a trailing slash.


Steps to reproduce:
1. Open a file chooser
2. Ctrl+L
3. Type in sftp://gemma, where gemma is some ssh server

Error dialog comes up,
"Could not retrieve information about the file"
"error accessing 'file:///tmp/sftp%3A%2F%2Fgemma': Invalid URI"

4. Alternatively, enter sftp://gemma/ (this has a trailing slash)
Success.


Actual results:


Expected results:


Does this happen every time?


Other information:
This may affect other parts of gnome that take a gnome-vfs uri.

Comment 1 Sebastien Bacher 2005-07-23 12:22:17 UTC

same with the current 2.11 versions

Comment 2 Kjartan Maraas 2006-10-23 14:47:07 UTC

If I do this in a gnome-file-entry I get a crash:

Memory status: size: 125005824 vsize: 0 resident: 125005824 share: 0 rss: 31383552 rss_rlim: 0
CPU usage: start_time: 1161604532 rtime: 0 utime: 2112 stime: 0 cutime:1880 cstime: 0 timeout: 232 it_real_value: 0 frequency: 0

Backtrace was generated from '/usr/bin/gnome-panel'

Using host libthread_db library "/lib/libthread_db.so.1".
[Thread debugging using libthread_db enabled]
[New Thread -1208747264 (LWP 14149)]
0x00605402 in __kernel_vsyscall ()

+ Trace 77863

Thread 1 (Thread -1208747264 (LWP 14149))

#0 __kernel_vsyscall
#1 ??
from /lib/libpthread.so.0
#2 libgnomeui_segv_handle
at gnome-ui-init.c line 870
#3 <signal handler called>
#4 IA__g_utf8_validate
at gutf8.c line 1561
#5 strdup_len
at gconvert.c line 984
#6 IA__g_filename_to_utf8
at gconvert.c line 1299
#7 browse_dialog_ok
at gnome-file-entry.c line 460
#8 IA__g_cclosure_marshal_VOID__INT
at gmarshal.c line 216
#9 IA__g_closure_invoke
at gclosure.c line 490
#10 signal_emit_unlocked_R
at gsignal.c line 2438
#11 IA__g_signal_emit_valist
at gsignal.c line 2197
#12 IA__g_signal_emit
at gsignal.c line 2241
#13 IA__gtk_dialog_response
at gtkdialog.c line 835
#14 action_widget_activated
at gtkdialog.c line 534
#15 IA__g_cclosure_marshal_VOID__VOID
at gmarshal.c line 77
#16 IA__g_closure_invoke
at gclosure.c line 490
#17 signal_emit_unlocked_R
at gsignal.c line 2438
#18 IA__g_signal_emit_valist
at gsignal.c line 2197
#19 IA__g_signal_emit
at gsignal.c line 2241
#20 IA__gtk_button_clicked
at gtkbutton.c line 889
#21 gtk_button_finish_activate
at gtkbutton.c line 1557
#22 button_activate_timeout
at gtkbutton.c line 1495
#23 g_timeout_dispatch
at gmain.c line 3422
#24 IA__g_main_context_dispatch
at gmain.c line 2045
#25 g_main_context_iterate
at gmain.c line 2677
#26 IA__g_main_loop_run
at gmain.c line 2881
#27 IA__gtk_main
at gtkmain.c line 1001
#28 main
at main.c line 97

Comment 3 Kjartan Maraas 2007-10-01 14:34:57 UTC

Commited a fix for the crash. The original bug hasn't been fixed though.

Comment 4 Bastien Nocera 2008-03-07 02:50:48 UTC

There's the same problem with the GIO backend, which leads me to believe it's a completion bug in GtkFileChooser.

The folder contents could not be displayed
Error stating file '/home/hadess/sftp:/192.168.1.7': No such file or directory

(I entered with the trailing slash)

Reproduced with glib2 2.15.6 and gtk+ 2.12.8.

Comment 5 André Klapper 2008-12-09 23:16:55 UTC

*** Bug 563224 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

Comment 6 Johan Brannlund 2009-03-23 01:06:26 UTC

With the GIO backend, entering non-local URIs doesn't work at all for me.

Comment 7 Liquider 2012-12-07 23:47:19 UTC

If anybody ever fixes this, might as well fix bug 164404.

Comment 8 Matthias Clasen 2018-02-10 04:37:46 UTC

We're moving to gitlab! As part of this move, we are closing bugs that haven't seen activity in more than 5 years. If this issue is still imporant to you and
still relevant with GTK+ 3.22 or master, please consider creating a gitlab issue
for it.

Comment 9 Bastien Nocera 2018-02-13 14:28:34 UTC

This works as expected now, the file chooser's confirmation button will be disabled if the trailing slash is missing, and it will open the remote directory as expected.