295107 - can not open ftp site, if you set a "network.dir.format = 3".

Status: RESOLVED INVALID

(Firefox Build System :: General, defect)

Description

[baffclan]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.8b2) Gecko/20050521 Firefox/1.0+
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.8b2) Gecko/20050521 Firefox/1.0+

if you set a "network.dir.format = 3".
can not open ftp site.



Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
(0. make a new plofile)
1. go to ftp site
   ex. ftp://ftp.mozilla.org/pub/mozilla.org/firefox/nightly/latest-trunk
2. open ftp site
3. open "about:config" in new tab
4. search "network.dir.format" and set a "3"
5. close a "ftp site" tab

6. open ftp site
   ex. ftp://ftp.mozilla.org/pub/mozilla.org/firefox/nightly/latest-trunk


Actual Results:  
7. can not open ftp site


Expected Results:  
7. open ftp site

Comment 1

[Michael Kristensen]

(In reply to comment #0)
Honestly I don't think this is a bug. I have the same problem, but see the
"network.dir.format" entry here:

http://kb.mozillazine.org/About:config_entries#Network..2A

Especially notice "requires code to parse/display that is not present by default".

Also see the link, which is mentioned under the entry:
http://www.mozilla.org/projects/netlib/dirindexformat.html

Comment 2

[Josh Birnbaum]

Is there any documentation that says this should work?  This appears to just be
a debug option.  I'm leaving it up to someone that knows more, but this doesn't
seem like a bug, just a "don't do that".

Comment 3

[Christian :Biesinger (don't email me, ping me on IRC)]

this works fine in seamonkey. only firefox does not contain the necessary code.
fixing product.

Comment 4

[Tristor]

3: application/http-index-format
(http://www.mozilla.org/projects/netlib/dirindexformat.html) (requires code to
parse/display that is not present by default in Firefox; it is present in the
Mozilla application suite)

I don't believe this is a bug, but is this way by design.  That above excerpt is
straight off the knowledge base that was linked by Michael.  This isn't supposed
to work in Firefox, or rather isn't supposed to work without something additional.
I am thinking this is probably invalid, but I will leave it to somebody with
more experience than myself to make that decision.  

Comment 5

[Christian :Biesinger (don't email me, ping me on IRC)]

(I should maybe note that the "it is present in the Mozilla application suite"
part was added by me in response to comment 1)

Comment 6

[Tristor]

The way I see this, it isn't a bug.  It was by design that this doesn't work in
Firefox.  I am going to mark this invalid, feel free to reopen if I am in error.