Hi everyone,

I was trying to set up org-protocol with Firefox (version 74.0) running under Windows 10. Unfortunately there seems to be an issue with additional slashes added to the URI so org-protocol can not parse it.

I setup a bookmark as mentioned in [1]. I changed the bookmark content to the new style of org-protocol links as described in [2], resulting in:

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javascript:location.href='org-protocol://capture?template=L&url='+encodeURIComponent(location.href)+'&title='+encodeURIComponent(document.title)+'&body='+encodeURIComponent(window.getSelection())
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To setup the forwarding to Emacs running inside WSL I used a registry entry as described on the same page:

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REGEDIT4

[HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\org-protocol]
@="URL:Org Protocol"
"URL Protocol"=""
[HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\org-protocol\shell]
[HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\org-protocol\shell\open]
[HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\org-protocol\shell\open\command]
@="\"C:\\Windows\\System32\\wsl.exe\" emacsclient \"%1\""
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Somehow Firefox adds another slash inbetween ~capture~ and the questionmark, so that Emacs receives this call, which I extracted from a Backtrace:

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* org-protocol-check-filename-for-protocol("/mnt/c/Windows/system32/org-protocol:/capture/?template=L&url=https%3A%2F%2Forgmode.org%2F&title=Org%20mode%20for%20Emacs%20–%20Your%20Life%20in%20Plain%20Text&body=" (("/mnt/c/Windows/system32/org-protocol:/capture/?template=L&url=https%3A%2F%2Forgmode.org%2F&title=Org%20mode%20for%20Emacs%20–%20Your%20Life%20in%20Plain%20Text&body=")) #<process server 
<68>>)
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The format ~org-protocol:/capture/?template=L...~ still seems to be within the HTML spec. But the additional slash makes the function ~org-protocol-check-filename-for-protocol~ fail to recognize the URI as a capture call. See also the discussion in [3].
I also tried the same bookmark in Chromium (version 83.0) but it also adds the additional slash.
I attached a proposed patch to allow URIs with and without the slash.

I'd be happy to know if anybody has a working setup using the bookmark above or similar or if there are other solutions which do not require this patch. Otherwise please let me know what is left to do to get this patch applied.

Thanks!


Footnotes:
[1]  https://orgmode.org/worg/org-contrib/org-protocol.html#org120a44e

[2]  https://orgmode.org/Changes_old.html#org18864d9

[3] https://github.com/sprig/org-capture-extension/issues/41#issuecomment-578499266