Samba and web pages

[Tom Metro]

John Abreau wrote:
> An extension would actually get pretty complicated;

Seems pretty simple to me...


> I'm not sure how it would determine whether to load index.html,
> index.htm, index.php, index.jsp, default.htm...

You'd simply declare a list of files to try and the order:

index.html index.htm default.htm default.html ...

whatever. It could be an option you set in your prefs.js.


> Also, the plugin would then have to somehow access the private
> resources on the server necessary to properly render its php and jsp
> pages.

Anything that requires server-side processing would be out of the question.

This is perfectly acceptable if you understand the use case: the purpose 
of such a plug-in would be to provide a friendlier way to browse a local 
file system. The automated behavior would only apply to file:// URLs. 
Think local documentation, mirrored web sites, stuff stored on CDROMs, etc.

  -Tom

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