Samba and web pages

[Matthew Gillen]

John Chambers wrote:
> Robert Krawitz commented:
> |    Date: Sat, 8 Mar 2008 22:21:37 -0500
> |    From: "John Abreau" <abreauj at gmail.com>
> |
> |    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.
> |
> | A browser could certainly emulate the behavior when browsing a local
> | directory.
> 
> Yeah, but which ones do? Actually, I spent a few minutes testing on a
> handy  machine with a dozen browsers installed, and the browsers that
> I tried all produced some sort of listing of directories.  

Konqueror has an option (under the 'view' menu) when browsing local files 
called "use index.html".

Matt

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