purple-url-handler doesn't handle irc:// links correctly

[dwayne]

I've tried various formats for URL handling in purple-url-handler all seem to fail for IRC type URLs.

On my system this works: purple-url-handler "xmpp:friedel@jabber.obsidian.co.za"

While none of these work: purple-url-handler "irc:irc.freenode.net" purple-url-handler "​irc://irc.freenode.net" purple-url-handler "​irc://irc.freenode.net#pootle"

In all cases the following error is produced: [dwayne@localhost filters]$ purple-url-handler "​irc://irc.freenode.net#pootle" /usr/lib/python2.5/site-packages/dbus/_dbus.py:248: DeprecationWarning?: The dbus_bindings module is not public API and will go away soon.

Most uses of dbus_bindings are applications catching the exception dbus.dbus_bindings.DBusException. You should use dbus.DBusException instead (this is compatible with all dbus-python versions since 0.40.2).

If you need additional public API, please contact the maintainers via <dbus@…>.

import dbus.dbus_bindings as m

Traceback (most recent call last):

File "/usr/bin/purple-url-handler", line 332, in <module>

main()

File "/usr/bin/purple-url-handler", line 314, in main

irc(uri)

File "/usr/bin/purple-url-handler", line 163, in irc

server = urllib.unquote_plus(match.group(2)) or ""

File "/usr/lib/python2.5/urllib.py", line 1158, in unquote_plus

s = s.replace('+', ' ')

AttributeError?: 'NoneType?' object has no attribute 'replace'

[terrex]

Explanation of pseudo-standard for irc url's which is followed by purple-url-handler can be read in ​http://www.mozilla.org/projects/rt-messaging/chatzilla/irc-urls.html

In example, to open a query to 'me' in 'irc.server.net' is: ​irc://irc.server.net/me,isnick You should have been configured an account in pidgin for protocol irc and server irc.server.net. I can confirm that works with no warning on 2.2.1:

terrex@belinda:~$ purple-url-handler ​irc://irc.irc-hispano.org/terrex,isnick terrex@belinda:~$

Cheers,

[dwayne]

Thanks just read and checked and it also works for the ​irc://server/#channel format. Don't know how I messed that up :) This can safely be closed.