Problems with redirection from HTTP to FTP

[Waldo Bastian]

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On Sun November 16 2003 04:16, Dawit A. wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> When I was attempting to troubleshoot bug# 13038, I run into a redirection
> problem. If you go to knoppix (http://www.knoppix.org/) website, click on
> download link and attempt to download from any one of the listed ftp
> sites,
 you get an error message that a file was expected but a folder was
> encountered. This happens because a POST http request is redirected to an
> FTP directory and the FTP request ends up being a GET instead of a LISTDIR.
> Is there an easy fix for this condition ?

Will be a bit tricky. The redirection is normally handled by KIO, who can't 
change a GET into a LISTDIR. I guess konqueror should somehow recognize the 
redirection (It already does, I assume) and this particular error and then 
retry with a listdir.

Cheers,
Waldo
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