[konsole] [Bug 379294] Implement OSC 8 hyperlink support

[Egmont Koblinger]

https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=379294

--- Comment #4 from Egmont Koblinger <egmont at gmail.com> ---
Some security implications were discussed in the comments section of the gist
page. In my opinion, so far the only valid concern was raised in
https://gist.github.com/egmontkob/eb114294efbcd5adb1944c9f3cb5feda#gistcomment-2404153.

As for your hypothetical example with mutt: Without mutt supporting explicit
hyperlinks, there's nothing that would change just by the terminal emulator
adding support. If mutt adds support too, then you _might_ claim it becomes
mutt's responsibility to filter these out or warn the user, just as much as you
_might_ claim that it's the responsibility of any GUI or web-based e-mail
client capable of handling HTML e-mail. I'm wondering: is it really theirs? And
then what about regular webpages having such malicious URLs (maybe displayed
inside a terminal emulator, in a text based browser), aren't these a problem?

As a rule of thumb, I believe that as long as we add something to the terminal
emulator which is already there in browsers, there's no (new) hole opened up.

I don't get your phishing or xdg-open references either, you'd need to provide
more concrete examples.

If you have any worries about the feature (irrelevant to Konsole in
particular), I'd be glad if you raised them for discussion on the gist page.

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