ftp:// URL interpretation of Thunderbird

Mon Mar 28 16:24:58 UTC 2005

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Alex Evonosky wrote:
> Mike Burger wrote:
> 
>>
>> I'm not sure that I understand why this is a problem.  Thunderbird is a
>> mail client.  Firefox is a web browser...most (if not all) web browsers
>> handle the download when you click on an ftp:// URL.  Thunderbird's
>> behavior is to call the web browser to do just that.
> 
> 
> The above is true, yet the question remains, his email client is not
> opening the browser, it is opening a composer window.  His thunderbird
> is not understanding the "ftp://"..  It is using it as a "mailto:"
> 

Since I assume a lot of the people on this list use TB, the question
still remains .. am I one of the very few who's experiencing this?

It doesn't appear to be problem with ftp:// since URLs like

ftp://ftp.domain.com

are handled properly. The problem comes about when there is a "@" in
that URL; like

ftp://user@domain.com

My guess is TB interprets the whole thing as a mailto: due to the '@' in
the address ...

Perplexed,
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