#723618 sensible-utils: /etc/mailcap sensible-browser command line uri

Package:
sensible-utils
Source:
sensible-utils
Submitter:
Kevin Ryde
Date:
2014-06-30 22:11:46 UTC
Severity:
minor
#723618#5
Date:
2013-09-17 23:06:22 UTC
From:
To:
The man page of sensible-browser shows

    sensible-browser url

but /usr/lib/mime/packages/sensible-utils has a plain %s which means it
runs with a filename

    sensible-browser filename

Is a browser program required to accept a filename on the command line
as well as url?  Or should the sensible-browser mailcap entry turn a
filename into a url when invoking sensible-browser?

I struck this because netsurf-gtk happened to be my highest priority
browser as determined by sensible-browser, and it takes only a url on
the command line not a filename, leading to

    see --debug foo.html
    =>
    - parsing parameter "foo.html"
    - Reading mime.types file "/home/gg/.mime.types"...
    - Reading mime.types file "/etc/mime.types"...
    - extension "html" maps to mime-type "text/html"
    - Reading mailcap file "/home/gg/.mailcap"...
    - Reading mailcap file "/etc/mailcap"...
    Processing file "foo.html" of type "text/html" (encoding=none)...
    - checking mailcap entry "text/html; /usr/bin/sensible-browser '%s'; description=HTML Text; nametemplate=%s.html"
    - program to execute: /usr/bin/sensible-browser '%s'
    - executing: /usr/bin/sensible-browser 'foo.html'

    Netsurf dialog box,
    Could not resolve host foo.html