Red Hat Bugzilla – Bug 139951
Cannot open remote file over FTP
Last modified: 2007-11-30 17:10:55 EST
Description of problem: The ability to connect to a remote FTP server with Nautilus and view it like a local folder is very useful, however it is not possible to open a remote file with its associated application (e.g. RPM files with system-install-package). Instead an error message is displayed - "Cannot display ftp://path/file". Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): nautilus-2.8.1-4 How reproducible: Always (at least with RPM files) Steps to Reproduce: 1. Connect to a remote FTP server, e.g. download.fedora.redhat.com 2. Navigate to a folder containing some RPM files 3. Double-click on an RPM file to open it. Actual results: Error message - "Cannot open ftp://anonymous@download.fedora.redhat.com/path/file.rpm" Expected results: The file should be copied to a temporary directory and then opened automatically, as if it were a local file. Additional info:
Additional note - the file can be copied to a local directory and opened, so this is not an access issue, it is an issue of Nautilus' behaviour.
This is an app bug. If the app handles gnome-vfs uris and says so in the desktop file (%u instead of %f) then it'll work.
Checked that out - opening a .txt file does indeed work. RPMS are strange, though. Right-clicking on a local RPM gives "Install Packages" and "Archive Manager" as the associated program options, but a remote RPM only has "Other application", even though if you select this it correctly identifies the file as type "RPM Package".
This is because system-config-packages doesn't have support for using gnome-vfs. We will consider adding thsi for a future generation of the tool