163943 - is it possible to make an Xplatform filemanager from the 'file://'protokoll?

Status: RESOLVED WONTFIX

(Core Graveyard :: Networking: FTP, enhancement)

Description

[Damir Perisa]

the XUL-filelistening with FTP and FILE protocolls is great (much better than
HTML-lists form server) ---- i was wondering if it is possible to enhance this
XUL-filelistening to a X-platform integrated filemanager in mozilla and an
FTP-client

i'm not a programmer, i 'understand' only some php4, java, perl and js - as much
i know such an enhancement must be done in the CPP-written part of mozilla -
right? this maybe difficult to do - right?

Such an enhancement would be nice to have in mozilla --- it maybe something
simmilar to Konqueror (KDE-windowmanager-part) or the Explorer/IExplorer
(basic-module of MSwindows), with one big difference: it's mozilla - do i need
to say more :-)

Comment 1

[Benjamin Smedberg]

Actually, a cross-platform filepicker and FTP client can be created using the
current network libraries and XPCOM.  There is already the basics in mozilla; if
you type the link file:///C:/ into your browser, you will see the file-picker in
action.  However, the mozilla project itself won't be creating a full-featured
FTP GUI, because it would bloat the browser. 

Take a look at http://tranzilla.mozdev.org/ which is a project to develop an FTP
client using the mozilla technologies.  I think it is what you're looking for.