Zotero 8 parses `zotero:` URLs differently than Zotero 7

[David Hoff-Vanoni]

Hi folks,

I wanted to share a change in behavior I discovered while testing my plugin in Zotero 8 beta, which I hadn't seen documented yet. I found that Zotero 8 beta parses `zotero:` URLs differently than Zotero 7 and 7.1 beta.

I specifically encountered this behavior with protocol extension URLs (i.e. `zotero://...`) and found that Z8 extracts the `host` part of the URL where Z7 does not. Using the `http:` protocol instead of `zotero:` results in the same behavior between Z7 and Z8. See attached screenshot for examples.

I'm fuzzy on the URL spec and don't know which behavior is more "correct," but I wanted to share here so folks are aware—especially those of you who are working with protocol extensions.

[Abe Jellinek]

Thanks, we documented this in a commit message but I forgot to add it to the wiki page. Will do that.

On Aug 5, 2025, at 2:58 AM, David Hoff-Vanoni <da...@vanoni.dev> wrote:

Hi folks,

I wanted to share a change in behavior I discovered while testing my plugin in Zotero 8 beta, which I hadn't seen documented yet. I found that Zotero 8 beta parses `zotero:` URLs differently than Zotero 7 and 7.1 beta.

I specifically encountered this behavior with protocol extension URLs (i.e. `zotero://...`) and found that Z8 extracts the `host` part of the URL where Z7 does not. Using the `http:` protocol instead of `zotero:` results in the same behavior between Z7 and Z8. See attached screenshot for examples.

I'm fuzzy on the URL spec and don't know which behavior is more "correct," but I wanted to share here so folks are aware—especially those of you who are working with protocol extensions.

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