Good Day
After working with Debian for almost 10 ten years now , this is the first time I need to post a request , as I am scratching my head around what appears to be a nasty situation.
I am running Debian Buster as a VM under Oracle VirtualBox , which in turn is hosted by Window 10. My networking works very well , even thru company proxy .
Recently , I have encountered that a number of applications prepends my home folder to the http URL , and returns an error as follows :
/home/antonr/https:/code.visualstudio.com: No such file or directory
this message box appears as soon after I request a update download for Visual Studio Code.
Now , clearly https:/code.visualstudio.com is correct , but where does the /home/antonr/ comes into play.
At first I thought the issue would be related to the application itself , but it is not as other apps exposes exactly the same behavior .
is it some kind of redirection on http level ?
Thanking you in advance .
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Prepending my home folder to URL, Why ?
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Re: Prepending my home folder to URL, Why ?
Just a random thought but would be looking at Virtualbox and how it handles bridged networking. More going on than Buster, clearly this isn't a conventional install or setup.
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Re: Prepending my home folder to URL, Why ?
Check ~/.config/mimeapps.list
Perhaps try running the applications from a terminal to see if they return any error messages (or check ~/.xsession-errors).
Perhaps try running the applications from a terminal to see if they return any error messages (or check ~/.xsession-errors).
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Re: Prepending my home folder to URL, Why ?
I must apologize , my problem was not debian is related, I managed to upgrade visual studio code code from the command line to the latest version, and this fixed all my problem. Thank you all contributed.
Re: Prepending my home folder to URL, Why ?
@antonr,
This could/would explain why the $HOME path is prepended, to make the path absolute.
If you really typed/configured the address with "https:/" (with one / instead of //), then it could be that the address is not recognized as a URL but as a file path, and specifically as a relative path, as "https:/" does not start with "/"./home/antonr/https:/code.visualstudio.com: No such file or directory
This could/would explain why the $HOME path is prepended, to make the path absolute.