Re: Samba and web pages

["bostonlinuxandunix" <user=37@nabble.blu.org>]

 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. 
> 
> 
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