Bug 197945

Summary:	Error message "URL cannot be listed" is displayed when trying to open a file inserting a HTTP URL
Product:	[Unmaintained] kio	Reporter:	Luca Carlon <carlon.luca>
Component:	general	Assignee:	David Faure <faure>
Status:	RESOLVED FIXED
Severity:	normal	CC:	finex, kost-bebix, mkem, stuffcorpse, toddrme2178
Priority:	NOR
Version:	unspecified
Target Milestone:	---
Platform:	Ubuntu
OS:	Linux
Latest Commit:		Version Fixed In:
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Description Luca Carlon 2009-06-26 11:30:08 UTC

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.

Comment 1 Todd 2009-10-09 08:37:51 UTC

I can confirm that this happens for me as well.

Comment 2 FiNeX 2009-10-14 13:48:48 UTC

Confirmed in trunk too.

Comment 3 David Faure 2009-10-15 11:40:17 UTC

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

Comment 4 FiNeX 2009-11-02 14:09:08 UTC

@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.

Comment 5 Mark Kretschmann 2009-11-12 07:50:23 UTC

*** Bug 176899 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

Comment 6 FiNeX 2011-08-24 12:17:25 UTC

Tested with KDE 4.6. It works :-)