KRun and Redirection

[David Faure]

On Wednesday 14 April 2004 20:56, Dawit A. wrote:
> KRun currently ignores any redirection requests that come via its uses of 
> KIO::*Job. Is this done on purpose ? I run into this issue while trying to 
> fix a problem in kio_sftp where "sftp://host" was not being correctly 
> redirected to "sftp://host/home/user" based on the logged in user's name 
> during a ::stat call. The redirection that resulted is completely ignored by 
> KRun (KonqRun actually) and hence the app assumes everything is fine and 
> continues to use the original URL...

KRun itself doesn't really need to handle redirects - if a new process is started
with the given URL, it will fetch it again and get the same redirect.

But the derived KParts::BrowserRun does handle redirections, by updating
the URL in BrowserRun::slotBrowserMimeType().

KonqRun goes one step further and even has a slotRedirection, mostly
for the history feature though.

Hmm, but you're talking about ::stat, not about ::mimetype... Why should
redirections in ::stat() matter? There again, if KRun finds out "it's a directory"
it will open it (and get redirected again), and if it finds out "it's a file", it
will start retreiving it to find the mimetype and we're in the above case
(slotBrowserMimeType).

-- 
David Faure, faure at kde.org, sponsored by Trolltech to work on KDE,
Konqueror (http://www.konqueror.org), and KOffice (http://www.koffice.org).