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On Sun, Mar 9, 2008 at 9:32 AM, Robert Krawitz <[hidden email]> wrote: > I'm not aware of any browsers that *currently* implement this behavior > -- I was just pointing out that there's nothing in principle > preventing a browser from doing so. Writing a Firefox extension to do > this would probably be a simple matter for someone who knows how to > write Firefox extensions. An extension would actually get pretty complicated; I'm not sure how it would determine whether to load index.html, index.htm, index.php, index.jsp, default.htm, or whichever of the many other common defaults that are in widespread use on various web servers. Apache has options to define these defaults and to specify what order to prioritize them in, but no mechanism to publish the settings so the browser can see them. Also, the plugin would then have to somehow access the private resources on the server necessary to properly render its php and jsp pages. The alternative would be to write a simpler plugin that essentially cripples the browser when it access any site that doesn't explicitly use index.html; pretty much any site using php, jsp, etc. -- John Abreau / Executive Director, Boston Linux & Unix GnuPG KeyID: 0xD5C7B5D9 / Email: [hidden email] GnuPG FP: 72 FB 39 4F 3C 3B D6 5B E0 C8 5A 6E F1 2C BE 99 -- 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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