bug#31812: 27.0.50; browse-url fails with file not found

[Dieter Deyke]

Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org> writes:

>> From: Dieter Deyke <dieter.deyke@gmail.com>
>> Date: Wed, 13 Jun 2018 15:05:22 +0200
>>
>>
>> While in gnus reading a message which contains an url, selecting 'Open
>> Link using browse-url' from the right-click menu fails with a pop-up
>> error dialog stating a file was not found. The same error happens with
>> the command browse-url-at-point on an url in any buffer.
>
> I cannot reproduce this, but I'm on a different OS.
>
>> To test I put the url 'http://google.com/' in a buffer and got the error
>> message:
>>
>> /home/deyke/http:/google.com: No such file or directory
>
> Can you show a Lisp backtrace from this error?

I do not get a lisp error, but a popup window showing the error
message.

I narrowed the problem so far to

(browse-url "http://google.com/";)

which fails.

--
Dieter Deyke
mailto:dieter.deyke@gmail.com
Get my Gnupg key:
gpg --keyserver keys.gnupg.net --recv-keys B116EA20