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This isn't handled in the browser at all. Apache has a user-overridable function for listing a directory, and its default function for listing a directory happens to look for a sequence of files such as index.html, and if it finds one of these, it returns it; otherwise it generates a directory listing. In the absence of apache, or other http-server software that implements the same behavior, you simply won't get this behavior. On Sat, Mar 8, 2008 at 1:36 PM, Robert Krawitz <[hidden email]> wrote: > Date: Sat, 08 Mar 2008 12:45:51 -0500 > > From: MBR <[hidden email]> > > Robert Krawitz wrote: > > Date: Sat, 08 Mar 2008 02:03:22 -0500 > > From: MBR <[hidden email]> > > > > Assuming I understand you correctly, you're just typing a directory path > > into your browser's address bar, and you'd like some server along the > > way to do the right magic so the index page is returned to the browser. > > I don't believe this is possible. Here's why. > > > > I think that what Jerry's asking for is that if you browse a directory > > that contains an index.html file that the browser open that file > > rather than provide a directory listing. > > > > For example, if there is a file /home/rlk/index.html, and I type > > > > file:///home/rlk > > > > into the browser, the browser should actually provide > > /home/rlk/index.html. > > As far as this goes, it sounds like we're in agreement on what he's > asking for. > > > This doesn't need any server involvement or anything. Whatever the > > merits or otherwise of this, it's something a browser could do on its own. > > Yes, you could rewrite the browser to make it do anything you wanted > to. But implicit in my response was the assumption that he was not > interested in modifying the source code to the web browser, the Samba > server, or any other major piece of software, but wanted to be able to > achieve his desired end just by reconfiguring existing software. > > Another way to look at it is that Jerry was simply asking whether the > browser has an option to do this (or whether there's a Firefox > extension or something that can already do this) -- a perfectly > natural thing to ask about. > > > -- > Robert Krawitz <[hidden email]> > > Tall Clubs International -- http://www.tall.org/ or 1-888-IM-TALL-2 > Member of the League for Programming Freedom -- mail [hidden email] > Project lead for Gutenprint -- http://gimp-print.sourceforge.net > > "Linux doesn't dictate how I work, I dictate how Linux works." > --Eric Crampton > > -- > > > This message has been scanned for viruses and > dangerous content by MailScanner, and is > believed to be clean. > > _______________________________________________ > Discuss mailing list > [hidden email] > http://lists.blu.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss >
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