184873 - Unable to pass parameters to helper application

Status: VERIFIED DUPLICATE of bug 57420

(Core Graveyard :: Cmd-line Features, defect)

Description

[Richard Kirkcaldy]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.3a) Gecko/20021202
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.3a) Gecko/20021202

Adding parameters to the commandline for the helper application causes mozilla
to fail when following a link to that mime type.

Also, a shell script to point to the application with parameters in place will
also not work.  This time it appears to work, but the application doesn't run.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1.Set helper application for audio/mpegurl to /usr/bin/gmplayer -playlist
2.Click on a link to a playlist
Actual Results:  
Mozilla fails with

an unknown error occurred
sorry about that, try saving to disk first and then opening the file

Expected Results:  
Saved the file to /tmp/playlist.m3u, and then run
/usr/bin/gmplayer -playlist /tmp/playlist.m3u

Comment 1

[Boris Zbarsky [:bzbarsky]]

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 57420 ***

Comment 2

[sairuh (rarely reading bugmail)]

v dup.