mishandling of x-devonthink-item:// URLs [Fixed 4.0.2 b1085]

[grahamdb]

Alfred is great for opening URLs, and it does fine with custom schemes, except for DEVONthink's.

 

When I try to open a URL which begins "x-devonthink-item://" Alfred doesn't recognize that it is a URL, and does a google search for the URL instead of just opening it.

 

I know that the x-devonthink-item scheme is registered in Launch Services, and it works everywhere else in my system (Terminal, rtf hyperlinks, etc) so I think the problem is with Alfred.

[grahamdb]

Some brief testing suggests that Alfred doesn't care about what's in Launch Services but doesn't recognize schemes with hyphens in them. If I type asdf:// Alfred treats it like a URL to open but if I type as-df:// it treats it like an arbitrary query

[vitor]

Welcome @grahamdb,

 

So presumably it won’t work with any x-callback-url. In the meantime, this is easy to fix with a Workflow. Connect a Keyword Input with Keyword x- to a Run Script Action with Language /bin/bash/ and Script open "x-${1}", and it should work.

 

Here’s a ready-made Workflow.

[Andrew]

@grahamdb I'll have this fixed in the next Alfred build. Alfred was incorrectly only recognising alphanumerics instead of all valid chars from the RFC2396:

 

scheme        = alpha *( alpha | digit | "+" | "-" | "." )

 

Cheers,

Andrew

[Andrew]

@grahamdb could you update to the 4.0.2 pre-release and let me know how you get on