Unwanted Konqueror behaviour with file name extensions

[Malcolm Fitzgerald]

On 31/05/2007, at 9:13 PM, Kevin Krammer wrote:

>
> On Thursday 31 May 2007, Never you mind wrote:
>> I'm accessing a computer via ssh. Using konqueror I can type
>> fish://user@myurl/path/to/file and browse the file system. That's
>> great. My problem arises with the naming conventions on the computer.
>> It has been set up to be a test bed for web development and the
>> directories are named according to their domain. There are lots of .au
>> domains. I can't access any directory that ends in .au because
>> konqueror treats it as a multimedia file and offers a bunch of
>> play/stop buttons instead of listing the directory contents.
>
> Can you try using sftp:// instead?
> Konqueror shouldn't do file type detection on directories at all, so 
> maybe
> there is a bug in the fish IO handler that messes up.

It looks like you are right. Using ftp protocol I don't have the 
problem at all.

malcolm


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