Version: (using KDE 4.2.90) OS: Linux Installed from: Ubuntu Packages Description: when trying to open a file in any application (I tried Kate and Amarok) specifying a complete HTTP URL, I get the error message "URL cannot be listed" and the file is not always opened. Kate shows the error message but opens the txt file, Amarok does not get the file (custom cover for album). Used to work with previous versions of KDE. How to reproduce: With kate just open a file and provide a complete URL like http://www.site.com/txtfile.txt. The error message is displayed and the file is opened. With Amarok, click on "select custom cover" and insert an image with a full HTTP URL http://www.site.com/jpgfile.jpg. The cover is not applied to the album. Expected behavior: no error message should appear as a list is not required and the file should be downloaded and passed to the application correctly. This seems not to happen every time.
I can confirm that this happens for me as well.
Confirmed in trunk too.
SVN commit 1035520 by dfaure: Don't show an error message in KDirOperator::Private::openUrl when the user types a HTTP url; we just skip listing the directory (but KFileWidget still has to set the url in KDirOperator since it's used later). Will backport for 4.3.3. BUG: 197945 M +3 -2 kfile/kdiroperator.cpp M +5 -1 kio/kfile/tests/kfstest.cpp WebSVN link: http://websvn.kde.org/?view=rev&revision=1035520
@David: I've tried with (Version 3.3.73) on KDE 4.3.73 (KDE 4.4 >= 20091026) and the error message is still there.
*** Bug 176899 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
Tested with KDE 4.6. It works :-)