On Friday 01 June 2007, Malcolm Fitzgerald wrote: > On 31/05/2007, at 9:13 PM, Kevin Krammer wrote: > > On Thursday 31 May 2007, Never you mind wrote: > >> I'm accessing a computer via ssh. Using konqueror I can type > >> fish://user@myurl/path/to/file and browse the file system. That's > >> great. My problem arises with the naming conventions on the computer. > >> It has been set up to be a test bed for web development and the > >> directories are named according to their domain. There are lots of .au > >> domains. I can't access any directory that ends in .au because > >> konqueror treats it as a multimedia file and offers a bunch of > >> play/stop buttons instead of listing the directory contents. > > > > Can you try using sftp:// instead? > > Konqueror shouldn't do file type detection on directories at all, so > > maybe > > there is a bug in the fish IO handler that messes up. > > It looks like you are right. Using ftp protocol I don't have the > problem at all. fish is a nice thing for secure connection if the remote SSH server does not have SFTP enabled, otherwise sftp is the better choice since it is really a file transfer mechanism over SSH, while fish is using perl/shell scripts to transfer files through a normal SSH session. Luckily most SSH installations have sftp enabled. Cheers, Kevin -- Kevin Krammer, KDE developer, xdg-utils developer KDE user support, developer mentoring
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