Konqueror's "Open With" dialog behaviour when opening a URL with an external application

[David Faure]

On Tuesday 17 May 2011, Dawit A wrote:
> On Tue, May 17, 2011 at 9:38 AM, Raphael Kubo da Costa <kubito at gmail.com> 
wrote:
> > Dawit A <adawit at kde.org> writes:
> >> On Mon, May 16, 2011 at 11:40 AM, Raphael Kubo da Costa
> >> 
> >> <kubito at gmail.com> wrote:
> >>> Hey there,
> >>> 
> >>> I'm looking at Ark bug 273239 [1]: when one clicks one of the mentioned
> >>> links, the Open With dialog shows up, and if one chooses to open the
> >>> linked zip file with Ark it fails.
> >>> 
> >>> It turns out that the web server only allows that link to work if the
> >>> Referrer is set correctly. However, when Ark is called it just issues
> >>> an HTTP GET with no Referrer header, thus getting an HTML login page
> >>> instead.
> >>> 
> >>> Is there anything I could to on Konqueror/KRun's side, or should I just
> >>> close that bug as something that cannot be fixed on KDE's side?
> >> 
> >> It is a bug in KParts::BrowserRun. Without getting into the gory
> >> details, the problem was caused by the fact that the original ioslave
> >> used to obtain the mimetype was never being reused by Ark because the
> >> job that was put on hold in KParts::BrowserRun::slotBrowserMimeType
> >> never gets published. Fixing that should fix the problem.
> > 
> > Thanks for the information.
> > 
> > I see that you've committed dfa8f69efb330a9f9a714a94f123c5d384445be2 to
> > kdelibs master. I've recompiled kdelibs here, but can still experience
> > the problem.
> 
> Hmm... indeed. I guess I must have tested with the wrong component by
> accident (kwebkitpart instead of khtml). Anyhow, I see what is
> happening and the cause for the issue remains the same. However, the
> ioslave that was put on hold was being purposefully removed in one of
> the functions KonqRun::foundMimeType calls,
> KParts::BrowserRun::handleNonEmbeddable. I will have to speak with
> David to find out why that is being done...

Can't remember. Tried asking git blame? :-)

-- 
David Faure, faure at kde.org, http://www.davidfaure.fr
Sponsored by Nokia to work on KDE, incl. Konqueror (http://www.konqueror.org).