1 files changed, 12 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/gio/glocalvfs.c b/gio/glocalvfs.c
index a830cc350..00fec8e2b 100644
--- a/gio/glocalvfs.c
+++ b/gio/glocalvfs.c
@@ -94,14 +94,24 @@ g_local_vfs_get_file_for_uri (GVfs       *vfs,
 {
   char *path;
   GFile *file;
-  char *stripped_uri, *hash;
-  
+  char *stripped_uri, *hash, *question_mark;
+
+  /* As per https://url.spec.whatwg.org/#file-state, file: URIs can contain
+   * query and fragment sections. We ignore them in order to get only the file
+   * path. Compliance to this part of the WhatWG spec doesn’t necessarily mean
+   * we comply with the entire spec. */
   if (strchr (uri, '#') != NULL)
     {
       stripped_uri = g_strdup (uri);
       hash = strchr (stripped_uri, '#');
       *hash = 0;
     }
+  else if (strchr (uri, '?') != NULL)
+    {
+      stripped_uri = g_strdup (uri);
+      question_mark = strchr (stripped_uri, '?');
+      *question_mark = 0;
+    }
   else
     stripped_uri = (char *)uri;