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Firefox 3 redirects FTP to HTTP

  • 06-07-2008 8:04am
    #1
    pickarooney
    Moderators, Arts Moderators Posts: 35,741 Mod ✭✭✭✭


    This happens on my home machine (linux) since I installed Firefox 3, but not on my work machine (windows) since I installed it there - whenever I type in an FTP address, the browser redirects me to the equivalent HTTP address.

    Now, if I type in the protocol by hand, i.e. I add the ftp://, it works...

    Anyone else notice this or know what the hell I'm on about?

    Opera doesn't do the redirect thing at home, for what it's worth.


Comments

  • #2
    Khannie
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 37,485 ✭✭✭✭Khannie


    seems like reasonable behaviour to default to http. Either that or I'm missing something. Can you give us an example?


  • #3
    pickarooney
    Moderators, Arts Moderators Posts: 35,741 Mod ✭✭✭✭pickarooney


    If I type in ftp.ikosoft.com it redirects to http://www.ikosoft.com
    If I type in ftp://ftp.ikosoft.com it goes to the FTP site.


  • #4
    aidan_walsh
    Closed Accounts Posts: 17,208 ✭✭✭✭aidan_walsh


    pickarooney wrote: »
    If I type in ftp.ikosoft.com it redirects to http://www.ikosoft.com
    If I type in ftp://ftp.ikosoft.com it goes to the FTP site.
    Redirects to the ftp:// for me if I enter your first example.


  • #5
    Khannie
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 37,485 ✭✭✭✭Khannie


    aidan_walsh wrote: »
    Redirects to the ftp:// for me if I enter your first example.

    Same here. I'm on linux too so it's not looking platform specific. Version info is:

    Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux x86_64; en-US; rv:1.9) Gecko/2008061017 Firefox/3.0

    Check your about:config maybe?


  • #6
    ethernet
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,568 ✭✭✭ethernet


    pickarooney wrote: »
    If I type in ftp.ikosoft.com it redirects to http://www.ikosoft.com
    If I type in ftp://ftp.ikosoft.com it goes to the FTP site.
    ftp.ikosoft.com doesn't jump to the http protocol here (OS X). Haven't tried it on my Linux box yet.


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