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Broswer handling of Unix shortcuts
Authored by: juzzyp on Apr 15, '05 01:37:47PM
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!
Cheers, Juz

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Broswer handling of Unix shortcuts
Authored by: dieter on Apr 15, '05 01:53:35PM

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.
Oh, and iCab version 3(beta) does that, too.



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