85330 - when html dirview is on, ftp links as toolbar button or toolbar menu item are broken

Status: VERIFIED DUPLICATE of bug 80401

(SeaMonkey :: Bookmarks & History, defect)

Description

[sairuh (rarely reading bugmail)]

apologies if this is an old or well-known issue, but i keep running into it...
basically, when i have an ftp link as a bookmark or toolbar button, i cannot
access it from the toolbar [ie, from the button or the bookmarks menu on the
toolbar]. instead i get a tiny, unexpanding box.

i have the pref in Debug > Networking > Enable html directory listing turned on
[checkbox selected]. however, rather than displaying the regular link icon in
the toolbar or bookmarks toolbar menu, it displays as a folder.

workaround #1: select the link from the Bookmarks menu in the main menu. kinda
defeats the purpose of having the link in the toolbar, though.

workaround #2: turn of the html dir view pref. even though the toolbar button
and bookmark work, i'm stuck with the long, expanding menus [which i'm not too
fond of --i much prefer the html view :)].

workaround #3: edit the ftp url so that its protocol is http instead. problem is
that this doesn't work with all ftp sites --eg, it's fine for the mozilla ftp
site, but doesn't work at all for sweetlou [alas].

Comment 1

[Bradley Baetz (:bbaetz)]

Dupe of 80401. (the summary for that says the opposite of what is proposed in
that bug, though)

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 80401 ***

Comment 2

[timeless]

.

Comment 3

[Doug Turner (:dougt)]

The root cause of this problem is that the ftp protocol is applying the stream 
converter instead of the clients.  A bug should be filed against me about this 
(if there isn't already one.

Comment 4

[Bradley Baetz (:bbaetz)]

dougt: I have a fix for that (bug 78148). Feel like reviewing it, and fixing the
problems it has? :)

But this feature is going away soon (even though my patches will let this work
with html dirs enabled), becasue it has other problems. Ben or I will get
arround to a patch soonish, hopefully.

se - if you leave off the final / in the ftp url, then we can't recognise it as
a directory, so you can use the ftp stuff anyway.

Comment 5

[sairuh (rarely reading bugmail)]

bbaetz: yep, removing the trailing / does the trick for me. thx for the workaround!

Comment 6

[Claudius Gayle]

*** Bug 85882 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***