Re: [Nautilus-list] HTTP Directory Browsing

[Ramiro Estrugo <ramiro eazel com>]

Thomas Haschka wrote:
> 
> I was thinking of WebDAV pages. However, I do owe my own server supporting
> this feature, and I do have a account at driveway (www.driveway.com). Both
> are supported in Microsoft's Web Folders, but I was not able to open them
> in a foler view using Nautilus. Maybe I did something wrong.
> 
> If I want to connect to my server using web view, I just enter the URL
> into the "Open Location..." dialog and click the checkbox, as you
> sayed. If i type the URL into Nautlus, the front page of my server is
> being opend by Nautilus, and I only could switch from "View as Web
> Page" to "View as Text". I can't view them in something like a folder
> view.
> 
> If I want to connect to my driveway account, I'm entering the following
> URL "http://files.driveway.com/user.haschka"; into this "Open
> Location...". Then the Explorer asks me for my username and my password,
> and then I could browse the folder like any other on my system. When I
> type the same URL into Nautlilus he tells me that I have no permission to
> view that folder. So I tried to do it like if I want to open a ftp folder,
> and typed in "http://haschka:password files driveway com/". After I did
> this Nautilus showed me the front page of driveway.
> 
> Thanks for help,
> 
> Thomas
> 

I think the issue here is that we dont yet support http authentication
in gnome-vfs and therefor Nautilus.

Theres at least 2 bugs already filed for this:

http://bugzilla.eazel.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2691
http://bugzilla.eazel.com/show_bug.cgi?id=4686

-re