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Broswer handling of Unix shortcuts
Thought this was pretty interesting, so tried it to connect to my user Document folder using Camino, Firefox, and Safari.
They all can hit file:///Users/[username]/Documents, with Safari opening a finder window (although the file URL is lost from the navigation line once opened), and Camino and Firefox both giving a browser based (think FTP) navigable folder structure. The interesting part for me was when I tried using tilde (~) as the current user: Firefox can;t handle it, Camino correctly interprets it when entered as file://~/Documents/, and Safari won't work as file://~/Documents/, but will work if you drop the "file://" and just type ~/Documents (case insensitive). Interesting tip, thanks!
Broswer handling of Unix shortcuts
At least Camino can do even simpler than that: just drag a folder icon from the desktop or any finder window into the browser window, and you get a directory listing with clickable links to all files and directories, including the hidden ones. |
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