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[Michael Schumacher <schumaml@xxxxxx>]

Might be missing SSL support in some library or tool, or a failure to
access that particular server - the file-uri plug-in can be built to use
through gvfs, libcurl or wget, cf.
https://git.gnome.org/browse/gimp/tree/plug-ins/file-
uri/Makefile.am?h=gimp-2-8#n26

My bet for the Ubuntu packages is on gvfs, as the gimp package doesn't
seem to have a dependency on libcurl or wget. I'm not running Ubuntu and
thus can't check, though.

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Title:
  Cannot open file from https location (URL)

Status in gimp package in Ubuntu:
  New

Bug description:
  If I try, I get this GIMP message:

    Opening 'https://[...]' failed:

    Could not load 'https://[...]': Failed to open file 'https://[...]':
  open() failed: No such file or directory

  Most of the time, I can manually edit the URL to read http://[...] and
  I can open the document as expected.

  The bug is a security vulnerability because it forces users to use
  unsecure communication.

  $ lsb_release -rd
  Description:	Ubuntu 16.04.1 LTS
  Release:	16.04

  $ apt-cache policy gimp
  gimp:
    Installed: 2.8.16-1ubuntu1.1
    Candidate: 2.8.16-1ubuntu1.1
    Version table:
   *** 2.8.16-1ubuntu1.1 500
          500 http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu xenial-updates/universe amd64 Packages
          500 http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu xenial-security/universe amd64 Packages
          100 /var/lib/dpkg/status
       2.8.16-1ubuntu1 500
          500 http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu xenial/universe amd64 Packages

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