"Something went wrong" is displayed while trying to open snap://snap_name?channel=non_latest_track #1982

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• I have searched the existing issues and found none matching what I'm reporting.

Bug Description

As per reproducion steps below, App Center is unable to open links provided by snapcraft.io that points to non-latest tracks. We get:

Steps to reproduce the behavior

1. Go to https://snapcraft.io/gimp
2. Open channel dropdown
3. Hover "preview/stable" then click on "Install >"
4. Click on "View in Desktop Store" (it corresponds to snap://gimp?channel=preview/stable)

Expected behavior

App page should open with preview/stable selected:

Ubuntu release

24.04 LTS

What architecture are you using?

amd64

System info

6.14.0-29-generic #29~24.04.1-Ubuntu SMP PREEMPT_DYNAMIC Thu Aug 14 16:52:50 UTC 2
name: snap-store
summary: App Center
publisher: Canonical✓
store-url: https://snapcraft.io/snap-store
license: unset
description: |
App Center
commands:

• snap-store.show-updates
• snap-store
  snap-id: gjf3IPXoRiipCu9K0kVu52f0H56fIksg
  tracking: 2/stable/ubuntu-24.04
  refresh-date: 2025-08-05
  channels:
  2/stable: 0+git.90575829 2025-10-09 (1270) 11MB -
  2/candidate: ↑
  2/beta: ↑
  2/edge: 0+git.c8916a07 2025-10-02 (1300) 18MB -
  latest/stable: 41.3-72-g80e7130 2024-09-22 (1216) 12MB -
  latest/candidate: ↑
  latest/beta: ↑
  latest/edge: 0+git.c8916a07 2025-10-02 (1300) 18MB -
  preview/stable: –
  preview/candidate: 0.2.7-alpha 2023-02-02 (864) 10MB -
  preview/beta: ↑
  preview/edge: 0.3.0-alpha 2023-08-14 (1017) 11MB -
  1/stable: 41.3-72-g80e7130 2024-09-22 (1216) 12MB -
  1/candidate: ↑
  1/beta: ↑
  1/edge: 41.3-72-g80e7130 2024-09-16 (1216) 12MB -
  installed: 0+git.90575829 (1270) 11MB -

name: snapd
summary: Daemon and tooling that enable snap packages
publisher: Canonical✓
store-url: https://snapcraft.io/snapd
contact: https://github.com/snapcore/snapd/issues
license: GPL-3.0
description: |
Install, configure, refresh and remove snap packages. Snaps are
'universal' packages that work across many different Linux systems,
enabling secure distribution of the latest apps and utilities for
cloud, servers, desktops and the internet of things.

Start with 'snap list' to see installed snaps.
type: snapd
snap-id: PMrrV4ml8uWuEUDBT8dSGnKUYbevVhc4
tracking: latest/stable
refresh-date: 52 days ago, at 18:05 UTC
channels:
latest/stable: 2.71 2025-08-23 (25202) 53MB -
latest/candidate: 2.72 2025-10-09 (25577) 53MB -
latest/beta: 2.72 2025-09-19 (25577) 53MB -
latest/edge: 2.72+g135.6d45803 2025-10-11 (25717) 53MB -
installed: 2.71 (25202) 53MB snapd

Additional context

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