Re: [Fwd: [Issue 19175] register for uri support in Gnome 2]

[Oliver Braun <Oliver Braun sun com>]

Christophe Fergeau wrote:
> Le jeudi 26 mai 2005 à 11:58 +0200, Oliver Braun a écrit :
>
> > Hi *,
> >
> > let me explain the issue more briefly:
> >
> > 1. RFC#1738 specifies the url as a concatination of cwd commands, meaning
> >
> > ftp://john server/foo/bar.txt will actually (assuming /home/john as the 
> > login directory) result in /home/john/foo/bar.txt on the server.
>
>
> Hmm, how do you get to /foo/bar.txt using an ftp:// like uri? Nautilus
> didn't like much getting to /some/random/directory/on/ftp/server instead
> of / when being given an uri like ftp://server/

One has to encode the slashes: ftp://server/%2Ffoo/bar.txt, which 
expands to `cd /foo` on the server.

Regards,
Oliver