ftp:// URL interpretation of Thunderbird

[Mike Burger]

On Mon, March 28, 2005 9:21 am, Mostafa Z. Afgani said:
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> Warren Togami wrote:
> | Mostafa Z. Afgani wrote:
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> |> Please try to click on the following *in thunderbird*, *under linux*
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> |> ftp://user@domain.com
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> | When I click on it in FC3 with thunderbird-1.0.2-1.3.2 it opens firefox.
> |
> | Warren Togami
> | wtogami at redhat.com
> |
> That's really strange .. :S .. I have
>
> $ rpm -q thunderbird
> thunderbird-1.0.2-1.3.2
>
> [version 1.0.2-1.3.2 (20050324)]
>
> And still the problem persists... I have 2 FC3 machines with latest
> updates and it's the same on both ..

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.

Even though it specifies, ftp, it's a URL.  Aren't URL's supposed to be
handled by the browser?

I would imagine that unless you, somehow, go into Thunderbird's settings,
and change what Thunderbird thinks it should do with a particular type of
URL, Thunderbird would naturally call Firefox to download the file in
question.

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