612023 - Can't open URIs from the command line

Status: RESOLVED FIXED

(Thunderbird :: OS Integration, defect)

Description

[Joshua Cranmer [:jcranmer]]

When I try doing mozilla/dist/bin/thunderbird -no-remote news:rec.games.pinball, I get an error to the effect that said URI is not a file.

After doing some research, it looks like bug 287345 incorrectly assumed that anything hitting that statement was a file and not a URI.

I believe this impacts shell integration for Linux, but I can't say about Windows or Mac OS X.

Comment 1

[Jonathan Protzenko [:protz]]

Attachment: Patch (standard8's idea)

Bug 287345 introduced the issue probably, so what we do here is just revert the previous behavior in case the code from bug 287345 failed to take effect.

Comment 2

[Mark Banner (:standard8)]

Comment on attachment 496775 [details] [diff] [review]
Patch (standard8's idea)

Although we could try being a URI first, and then try and be a file, but I don't think it really matters too much.

Comment 3

[Jonathan Protzenko [:protz]]

checked-in http://hg.mozilla.org/comm-central/rev/2e4b1b429e5d

Comment 4

[Rain [:rain1] (inactive)]

Should this fix be in http://mxr.mozilla.org/comm-central/source/mailnews/base/src/nsMailNewsCommandLineHandler.js instead? I think SeaMonkey would be happy to get it too.

Comment 5

[Rain [:rain1] (inactive)]

(actually, never mind -- that file wouldn't handle your command-line at any rate.) We really should have a proper spec for our command-line stuff. :/