[kmail2] [Bug 394599] New: KMail generates duplicate requests when opening URL

[Florian Lindner]

https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=394599

            Bug ID: 394599
           Summary: KMail generates duplicate requests when opening URL
           Product: kmail2
           Version: 5.8.0
          Platform: Archlinux Packages
                OS: Linux
            Status: UNCONFIRMED
          Severity: normal
          Priority: NOR
         Component: misc
          Assignee: kdepim-bugs at kde.org
          Reporter: florian.lindner at xgm.de
  Target Milestone: ---

Hello,

I've come to notice an problematic behavior of KMail (and probably of other KDE
applications, too) of opening URLs. My systems default browser is Firefox. When
I click on a link in a mail, KMails seems to do a request, followed by Firefox:

some IP - - [04/Feb/2018:20:50:17 +0100] "GET / HTTP/1.1" 200 5200 "-"
"Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64) KHTML/5.42.0 (like Gecko) Konqueror/5
KIO/5.42"
same IP - - [04/Feb/2018:20:50:18 +0100] "GET / HTTP/1.1" 200 5200 "-"
"Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:58.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/58.0"

I wonder why KMail at all is doing a request in contrast to just handing the
URL over to the browser.

This behavior can be problematic with verification tokens, e.g. I wasn't able
to complete an ordering process with hetzner.com until I copied/pasted the link
to Firefox.

It also breaks the Discourse Forum one-click update, Eurowings booking
informationen and account confirmation at senderscore.org.

See also: https://forum.kde.org/viewtopic.php?f=215&t=150937

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