konqueror5/Mac : kf5.kio.widgets: KonqRun(x) ERROR (stat): 111 "The file or folder http://www.kde.org/ does not exist."

[René J.V. Bertin]

Hi,

Not sure where to ask about this:

I recently upgraded to frameworks 5.35.0 and applications 17.04.2 . I don't think I tested konqueror5 with a remote website (on Mac), and discover today that it fails with terminal errors of the style

kf5.kio.widgets: KonqRun(0x7f89f7dd9db0) ERROR (stat): 111   "The file or folder http://www.kde.org/ does not exist."

and the following message shown in the browser window:

This site can’t be reached

The web page at error:/?error=111&errText=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.kde.org%2F#http://www.kde.org might be temporarily down or it may have moved permanently to a new web address.
ERR_UNKNOWN_URL_SCHEME

Qupzilla works fine using the same Qt install and a mostly identical konqueror build works fine too on my Linux system.

This reeks of an issue with KIO but I cannot put my finger on it?

Thanks,
René