PATCH: Make redirection from HTTP to FTP work [Was: Problems with redirection from HTTP to FTP]

[Dawit A.]

Hi,

Here is a patch to address that problem. I guess all other apps that run into 
the same problem have to do similar things. This brings up an interesting 
question though. Why does KIO handle redirection by itself to begin with ? 
Shouldn't that have been left upto each applications ?

> > 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.

-- 
Regards,
Dawit A.
"Preach what you practice, practice what you preach"
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