Re: [newbie] Strange Behaviour by File Manager (Superuser) - Repost

[Brant Fitzsimmons]

Todd Slater wrote:

On Tue, Jul 29, 2003 at 12:47:19PM -0400, Brant Fitzsimmons wrote:
 

Graham Watkins wrote:

   

Todd Slater wrote:

     

On Tue, Jul 29, 2003 at 12:50:02PM +0100, Graham Watkins wrote:

       

Graham Watkins wrote:

         

Hi Y'all,

I opened Konqueror as superuserthe other day with the intention of 
moving some files from my user directory to my windows drive to 
which the user does not have write permission. When I navigated to 
my /home/user directory, the window displayed a web page - the UK 
Mirror Service Homepage even though most of the links displayed on 
it didn't work. I'm sure this isn't supposed to happen.

Anyone ever seen anything like this ?

I'm using mdk 9.0
           

         

OK, "no".

Did you by any chance save that page in your home directory?

Todd
       

Yup. After reloading the page, the location bar showed 
/home/graham/index.html. I had saved the page with this name although 
I don't remember when or why. From the regular user Konqueror, I 
deleted it.
Then when I refreshed the page as super user, it displayed the 
contents of my home directory like it was supposed to.

Thanks for pointing me in the right direction.
     

Here's why it did it:

In Konqueror:
View => Use index.html
You'll notice that it is checked.  Uncheck it and you won't have the 
problem.

This is a very annoying feature in my opinion.  I can't get it to stay 
off.  I've tried turning it off and then saving the configuration for 
"File Management", but it won't go away.
   

Precisely why I don't want an all-in-one app; I prefer a dedicated file
manager and web browser.
Just out of curiosity, if you uncheck "Use index.html" will it still
resolve http://www.site.com/ to http://www.site.com/index.html on the
web? If it didn't that would be really annoying.
Todd

I believe that function is server side.  You choose, on the server, the 
default page delivered to someone who goes to your web address.  
Changing Konqueror wouldn't affect that.

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