24389 - [RFE] Check if symbolic link points to file or directory in ftp

Status: VERIFIED WONTFIX

(SeaMonkey :: General, enhancement, P3)

Description

[Jonas Sicking (:sicking) No longer reading bugmail consistently]

When viewing a ftp-directory it would be really neat if mozilla could check
each symbolic link to see if it points to a file or a directory. This would
preferrably be checked after the directory was shown, since there could take
very long time to check all symbolic links in a long listing.

Until a link had been checked it can be shown as it is now (clickable and with
a expand arrow). But once mozilla has found out what the link is it would
change to only clickable or with an expand arrow

Comment 1

[Judson Valeski]

taking

Comment 2

[Blake Ross]

*spam* changing qa contact from [e-mail] to me ([e-mail]) 
on 121 open or resolved (but not verified) bugs.  sorry for the spam everybody, 
but most of these bugs would just remain dormant and not checked by QA 
otherwise.  I'm not sure how so many bugs have nobody as their QA contact, but 
I suspect this is the fault of some sort of bugzilla corruption that happened 
at some point (most of these bugs are in the 20000-26000 range, and I don't see 
where in the activity log that QA contact explicitly changed to 
[e-mail])

Anyways, sorry again for spam.  If you really get annoyed, I'm usually 
available in #mozilla on IRC for torture.

Comment 3

[Gagan]

robert-- welcome to necko!

Comment 4

[Robert John Churchill]

*** Bug 53577 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

Comment 5

[Gagan]

Hi dougt, welcome to necko :)

Comment 6

[Doug Turner (:dougt)]

Very expensive to do (a new request).  Most of the time, the server just says 
its a symlink.

marking wontfix.

Comment 7

[Jonas Sicking (:sicking) No longer reading bugmail consistently]

Wow, this old thing! One of the first bugs I filed... oh, the memories this 
brings, *sigh* :)

anyway, verifying, this dosn't seem that important any more...

Comment 8

[benc]

(should be sent to wherever xul/tree lives...)

ftp/html works, for what it is worth...