Re: open location..
Re: open location..
- Subject: Re: open location..
- From: Craig Sutherland <email@hidden>
- Date: Fri, 11 Jul 2003 12:52:18 -0500
David,
I don't believe the Finder.app has ftp capabilities. These are a part
of OS X. If you use the Go menu in the Finder to connect via ftp, this
is a GUI to the inner working of OS X. If there is a connection to a
ftp site, then the Finder shows that connection as an icon which is
really a file management access tool. If I get it, the Finder.app is
responsible for the Desktop and provides file management.
Can you tell more about why you have chosen the Finder to handle the
ftp? Maybe there is a way to get to what you want by having a little
more info.
The open location command is an event in the Standard Additions
Scripting Addition- not in the Finder. You can find that in the
Dictionaries. The Ifo for open location states:
**********************************************
open location: Opens a URL with the appropriate program (your favorite
browser)
open location plain text -- the URL to open
[error reporting boolean] -- should error conditions be reported in
a dialog?
**********************************************
There is that reference to 'your favorite browser', which is there for
a reason.
The open command in Darwin/BSD accessible through the Terminal has a
parameter '-a' that lets you specify an application to open the file or
location. Without a specification, it defaults to TextEdit, which may
be a part of the reason we're getting the Save window when we do some
fiddling- the expectation is that TextEdit will open the designated
path.
Why some locations can be logged onto successfully and some cannot may
have to do with the ftp protocols at the ftp server site. I was able to
log onto the site you are wanting to access with the Terminal and the
ftp command but only after supplying anonymous as user and my email
address as password. Perhaps the site has a more strict log-on
requirement, i.e. it needs the email address as password. That would
jive with the appearance of the window you get asking for a username
and password.
Craig
On Friday, July 11, 2003, at 10:26 AM, David Crowe wrote:
Peter;
Thanks for the tip on "moreInternet". A valuable addition to my
System Preferences , for sure.
I did manage to make "Finder" my ftp helper
(System/Library/CoreServices/Finder.app).
However, open location still misbehaves just as badly, including:
No error message (and no action) if you give it a bad URL (e.g. if
you forget the "ftp://"; prefix).
No real action (beyond asking for a username and password) when you
give it an FTP URL that it doesn't like (e.g.
"ftp://ftp.tiaonline.org/";). It also requires the terminating slash
to know that this URL is a folder, otherwise it asks for a folder to
download it, and then downloads the folder as a file.
It works beautifully on "ftp://ftp.apple.com"; (surprise, surprise)
and probably some other FTP sites, but not very generally.
So, I guess it's back to using Fetch as my ftp helper, I guess.
- David Crowe
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